Lower Muea under threats over boundary dispute with neighbour

Chief Musenja Peter Epie of Lower Muea has told reporters that he and his subjects are under increased threats as relations between the people of Lower and Upper Muea go sour given that boundary lines between both villages remain unclear.

Quizzed on the state of relations between both villages, Chief Musenja said “The relationship between Lower and Upper Muea is not cordial at all. I’ve been under constant threats from the Upper Muea chief [Chief Molinge Ikome David] who has been trying to personalise himself as the chief of the entire Muea.”

Chief Musenja said he is appalled by the behaviour of his peer but said all plans to push him to the wall will backfire.

“Fortunately, I’ve come home and the people now know that he [the Upper Muea Chief] is not the only chief of Muea. He constantly disturbs my subject. The chiefdom of Upper Muea was just created recently. I don’t know his subjects, I don’t know his boundaries. The day he will locate himself, then our relationship can become warm again.”

Priding himself of his status as the fourteenth chief of Muea, Chief Musenja said he has kept a cool head in the face of the adversities, waiting on the administration to delimit both villages.

“…The administration needs to accelerate efforts aimed at tracing the boundaries between both chiefdoms…Threats against my subjects and I must stop. We have been patient enough. Even elastic has its limits,” the Lower Muea Traditional Ruler said.

Chief Musenja made all these remarks during a Traditional Home-Coming Reception, May 31, organised in his honour by the Wonjoku Royal Family.

Chief Musenja said he is coming back home to occupy his traditional stool because he has understood that a chief should not rule his people from without, reason why he retuned home. He said development projects for Lower Muea village will continue, especially as he is now living the daily realities of his people.

After collaborating with Rumpi to get water in Lower Muea village and with the Council to get an earth road that facilitates the evacuation of farm produce to the markets, Chief Musenja says they are not done yet. He enjoined his subjects to rally behind him so that more development projects will see the light of day in the village.