—Worried by the attack by Fulani herdsmen on Nimbo community, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, members of Enugu State House of Assembly, yesterday, at its plenary asked President Muhammadu Buhari to redeploy all the security chiefs in the state. The House said that what transpired at Nimbo community should be conveyed to all the international human right organisations. In addition, the House urged Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to liaise with the National Emergency Mangement Agency, NEMA, to ensure that the displaced people of Nimbo are taken care of. Contributing to the motion brought by the member representing Uzo-Uwani at the House, Hon. John-Kevin Ukuta, on the menace of Fulani herdsmen, Speaker of the House, Hon. Edward Ubosi, urged the people of Enugu State not to live in fear or to take laws into their hands as government was doing everything possible to protect their lives and property. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, (left) sympathizing with one of the victims of herdsmen’s Monday attack in Nimbo, admitted at Holy Cross Hospital, Nsukka, Enugu State He said: “You all spoke from the bottom of your heart because human lives were involved. However, I urge the people of the state not to live in fear or take laws into their hands.” Also, other members condemned what they described as the “dastardly” acts of the security men who abandoned their duty posts for the Fulani herdsmen to hold sway. K. E. Ude-Okoye, representing Awgu North, said if nothing was done, the entire Igbo nation would be in trouble as, according to him, the attack was a calculated attempt to whittle down the population of the Igbo race. He said: “We, the Igbo people are in trouble. Majority of us have been affected. They want to reduce the population of Igbo. They want to continue the Civil War, which ended in 1970. “Where shall we run to? Have we done any evil? Tell us and we will apologise. Are we not part of Nigeria? Is the life of a cow worth more than that of human being?” Ude-Okoye suggested that the House should urge the government to adopt the security measure employed by Anambra, Delta and Bayelsa states in curtailing the herdsmen menace. ‘We need a law’ In his contribution, Hon. Chinedu Nwamba of Nsukka East suggested that the way out of the logjam was to enact a law curtailing the movement of the herdsmen in the state. Nwamba was of the view that if nothing drastic was done, the ugly incident might recur. He said: “This is a heinous act. It is man’s inhumanity to man. My heart is bleeding. If drastic action is not taken, something more drastic might happen. “I am not saying that people should not do business, but talking grammar without a law will not have any effect.” Mrs Ethel Ugwuanyi, representing Igbo-Eze North 1, equally suggested that the Fulani herdsmen should vacate Enugu State for peace to reign, while Hon. Anthony Ogidi suggested that security posts be established at border communities of Igbo-Eze North and South as well as Isi-Uzo Local Government areas to check the influx of Fulani herdsmen into the state. NBA reacts Also yesterday, the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Idemili Branch, one of the eight branches of the bar in Anambra State, condemned the invasion of Fulani herdsmen to farmlands in various parts of the country, particularly in the South-East zone and killing of persons in the host communities. NBA described it as an affront on the communities involved, adding that it had been a thorny issue all this while, where people that rear the cattle which is supposed to be a private business, use it to destroy the farmlands, crops, economic trees of host communities and even kill the people. Chairman of the branch, Ben Okoko, who spoke to newsmen in his office at Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, said: “We have been hearing these things as rumours from far away, but the recent one at Ukpabi-Nimbo community in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State is most bizarre and should be condemned in all its ramifications by all right-thinking members of the society. “Human lives, no matter how frail, are supposed to be sacrosanct and cannot be equalled to lives of cows. The lives of 1,000 cows can never be equated to one human life and people killing and annihilating an entire community for the sake of cattle can, at best, be equated to cannibals.” Call for UN intervention Similarly, a civil society group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, has called on all the states of the rain forests region (South East and South-South) to rise with one voice and ensure prohibition of the Fulani animal husbandry in all parts of Nigeria except in the core North. Intersociety also called for International Criminal & Diplomatic Interventions, ICDI, to intervene in this regard because, according to the society, time had come for urgent international intervention by the International Governmental Organisations, IGOs, and other members of the international community. Bishop Ugorji In tandem with the general outcry against the herdsmen invasion, Catholic Bishop of Umuahia Diocese, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has called on the Federal Government to immediately disarm the Fulani herdsmen, warning that delay is dangerous. According to Bishop Ugorji, who spoke while delivering his homily during an early morning mass in Umuahia, grazing field for herdsmen in the South-East and other parts of the country would stoke more problems rather than solving them.

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Fulani herdsmen must leave the SS/SE regions

When there is so much complacency in security apparatus.The common man suffers.How can one explain this gross negligence of our security agencies?When there was an intel regarding the attack at Nimbo community in Uzo uwani LGA of Enugu state.someone has to loose his Job for others to learn in the hard way.
Hmmm,I doubt if Bubu will hit to this call.Since the gesture was to service the devilish activities of his kinsmen.However,who knows if Baba himself was an accompliced.