Jotsoma Youth Organisation flays trespass into village reserved forest

The Jotsoma Youth Organisation (JYO) has expressed shock over the alleged provocative actions of a team of Kigwema villagers comprising of about 100 youths who “trespassed” into Jotsoma Village Reserved Forest on March 8.

JYO in a press release alleged that the youths were “fully armed with guns of various calibers and fired provocatively challenging the Jotsoma villagers with war.”

The organisation also claimed that the Kigwema youths destroyed the Mithun fencing, which was standing at the boundary of the two villages.

JYO conveyed gratitude to the Police lead by SDPO Kohima for sending the Kigwema youths back to their village without any untoward incident between the villages.

“The JYO condemned the provocative actions and act of vandalism of the Kigwema youths and through this release inform one and all that the JYO is prepared to protect its reserved forest,” the youth organisation asserted.

JYO further informed that in view of the “confrontational action” of the Kigwema youths, 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 inform anyone intending to visit 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,” JYO stated.

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