Kohima, March 9 (MExN): The Jotsoma Youth Organisation (JYO) has expressed shock at the alleged “provocative actions of a team of Kigwema villagers comprising of about 100 youths who trespassed into Jotsoma Reserved Forest Village on 8th March, 2023 fully armed with guns of various caliber and fired provocatively challenging the Jotsoma villagers with war.”
“The Kigwema youths also destroyed Mithun Fencing which were standing at the boundary of the two villages,” JYO President, Rokovizo Senotsu and Secretary, Thejaseto Medoze alleged in a press release.
While expressing gratitude to the police lead by SDPO, Kohima for “having sent back the Kigwema youth to their village without any untoward incident between the villages,” JYO condemned “the provocative actions and act of vandalism of the Kigwema youth and through this release inform one and all that the JYO is prepared to protect its reserved forest.”
Further, in view of the incident, the Jotsoma Village Council in an emergency meeting held on March 8 resolved “not to allow anyone to enter the Jotsoma Village Reserved Forest without its permission.”
The JYO also informed that “anyone intending to visit Jotsoma Reserved Forest not to visit the forest till further notice. The general public may therefore, take notice that any individual trespassing into the forest shall be doing so at their own risk and peril.”
