The Eke Town Union in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State has decried the increasing rate of divorce occasioned by alleged rape from suspected herdsmen.

The town union’s President-General, Mr. Anthony Enu, spoke about the issue when he testified in the commission of inquiry into the killing of people in Nimbo community on Monday.

Enu said that the situation had become scandalous because no man would take in a woman who had been messed up by suspected herdsmen.


“The herdsmen are consistently raping our women and daughters infecting them with serious diseases thereby causing indirect divorce in our communities,” he said.

“If my wife is messed up by the herdsmen, why should I take her in again? This will mean that what is holding her will hold me.”

According to him, communities in the area have had their fair share of attack by the cattle breeders, adding that no fewer than 10 people had died as a result.

Enu recounted how three residents of Ogui village, Iloafonsi Ofokansi, Aniago Egbo and Josephat Maduweke, were killed in cold blood by suspected herdsmen in 2002.


He said, “Mr. Isreal Eneje was working on his farm with his daughter when the cattle breeders took their animals to his farm. He protested and told them to go away and they ended up killing him.

“They have killed many of our people in the past and in each case we report to the police station at 9th Mile.

“The herdsmen are now assuming to be landlords and have been harassing our people. They should leave our communities in peace.”

Meanwhile, the Agu Umabor Town Union in Nsukka Local Government Area has said that it is opposed to the creation of grazing reserves in their area.

The Secretary of the union, Mr. Livinus Odo, said this when he testified in the tribunal on their activities of the suspected herdsmen in the area.

Odoh appealed to the South-East caucus in the National Assembly to give a block opposition to the legitimisation of any form of grazing bill.

“They should vacate our communities because we don’t have enough farmland not to talk of the one for grazing. The herdsmen have committed atrocities in our communities and it has been a difficult time for our people and we appeal to the government to save us from this menace,” he said.

He narrated the experience of one Nnabuike Odo, a commercial motoryclists, who on May 10, 2016, was almost killed because he made a comment, which some herdsmen found offensive.

“They shot at him but he was so fortunate to escape their bullets,” Odo said.

“We have abandoned a particular road leading to our community because of them. My people have abandoned agriculture because of the herdsmen and we are helpless.”

The Chairman of the panel, Justice Chukwuma Eneh, said that the commission would accommodate all complaints and forward same to the state government.

“We will accommodate your story in our report and see if the government will do something to help you,” Eneh said.

ConqueredWest:
Fake news written by Afonjas

jstbeinhonest:



As usual it took less than 10comments for you peeps to blame your nightmare, the Yorubas.
Here is the link

http://punchng.com/men-divorce-wives-raped-herdsmen-community-leader/

I'm sure if this report took place in the west you wouldnt need a source to splash your cúm all the thread.

ConqueredWest:


Who doesn't know that punch the nation tribune etc are Afonjas newspapers

modath:

I do not blame the men, it may be wrong but that's the way of the world, people treat rape victims as pariah and will mock their spouse and family without considering the impropriety of such actions and how it makes the victims feel...

I pray and hope the women are taken in by NGOs (govt is USELESS) for counselling, rehab and relocation from that community so they don't take the "easy way" out..

As for the animals in human skin called herdsmen, Ecowas terrorists, bandits or whatever anybody chooses to call them, they will never end well, they will be fed to the dogs, their children will be raised by strangers, joy will never locate them!!!!

& anybody (from whatever region) that makes mockery of these already debased and traumatised women will have a long term relationship with joylessnessl!!!

Some things are sacred and off limits.

ConqueredWest:


Who doesn't know that punch the nation tribune etc are Afonjas newspapers

ProfessorPeter:
Sharing this country with Fulani herdsmen is disgusting.

modath:


As for the animals in human skin called herdsmen, Ecowas terrorists, bandits or whatever anybody chooses to call them, they will never end well, they will be fed to the dogs, their children will be raised by strangers, joy will never locate them!!!!

modath:

I do not blame the men, it may be wrong but that's the way of the world, people treat rape victims as pariah and will mock their spouse and family without considering the impropriety of such actions and how it makes the victims feel...

I pray and hope the women are taken in by NGOs (govt is USELESS) for counselling, rehab and relocation from that community so they don't take the "easy way" out..

As for the animals in human skin called herdsmen, Ecowas terrorists, bandits or whatever anybody chooses to call them, they will never end well, they will be fed to the dogs, their children will be raised by strangers, joy will never locate them!!!!

& anybody (from whatever region) that makes mockery of these already debased and traumatised women will have a long term relationship with joylessnessl!!!

Some things are sacred and off limits.

nduchucks:


Haba Madam, how can you paint these herdsmen with the same broad brush. I submit to you that the vast majority of herdsmen are law abiding, hard working people. Please tone down the rhetoric lest you breed more hatred and racism.

nduchucks:


Haba Madam, how can you paint these herdsmen with the same broad brush. I submit to you that the vast majority of herdsmen are law abiding, hard working people. Please tone down the rhetoric lest you breed more hatred and racism.

ImperialYoruba:


Endorsed!!

I believe the traditional ruler can be more useful here than NGO because of the grassroot contact and his position of authority in the community. The ruler could form a family crisis and rehab council (it should not be an office or a permanent fixture but a term limited intervention) to consist of elders from both genders. Their aim should focus on victim (the girls and women) support and there should be no line drawn on the scope.

I sympathize with the families.

ConqueredWest:
Fake news written by Afonjas

“If my wife is messed up by the herdsmen, why should I take her in again? This will mean that what is holding her will hold me.”

modath:


Has is not been established that some of them kill and maim in retaliation for some slights, real or perceived?

zealog:



The Eke Town Union in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State has decried the increasing rate of divorce occasioned by alleged rape from suspected herdsmen.

The town union’s President-General, Mr. Anthony Enu, spoke about the issue when he testified in the commission of inquiry into the killing of people in Nimbo community on Monday.

Enu said that the situation had become scandalous because no man would take in a woman who had been messed up by suspected herdsmen.

“The herdsmen are consistently raping our women and daughters infecting them with serious diseases thereby causing indirect divorce in our communities,” he said.



“If my wife is messed up by the herdsmen, why should I take her in again? This will mean that what is holding her will hold me.”

According to him, communities in the area have had their fair share of attack by the cattle breeders, adding that no fewer than 10 people had died as a result.

Enu recounted how three residents of Ogui village, Iloafonsi Ofokansi, Aniago Egbo and Josephat Maduweke, were killed in cold blood by suspected herdsmen in 2002.

He said, “Mr. Isreal Eneje was working on his farm with his daughter when the cattle breeders took their animals to his farm. He protested and told them to go away and they ended up killing him.

“They have killed many of our people in the past and in each case we report to the police station at 9th Mile.

“The herdsmen are now assuming to be landlords and have been harassing our people. They should leave our communities in peace.”

Meanwhile, the Agu Umabor Town Union in Nsukka Local Government Area has said that it is opposed to the creation of grazing reserves in their area.

The Secretary of the union, Mr. Livinus Odo, said this when he testified in the tribunal on their activities of the suspected herdsmen in the area.

Odoh appealed to the South-East caucus in the National Assembly to give a block opposition to the legitimisation of any form of grazing bill.

“They should vacate our communities because we don’t have enough farmland not to talk of the one for grazing. The herdsmen have committed atrocities in our communities and it has been a difficult time for our people and we appeal to the government to save us from this menace,” he said.

He narrated the experience of one Nnabuike Odo, a commercial motoryclists, who on May 10, 2016, was almost killed because he made a comment, which some herdsmen found offensive.

“They shot at him but he was so fortunate to escape their bullets,” Odo said.

“We have abandoned a particular road leading to our community because of them. My people have abandoned agriculture because of the herdsmen and we are helpless.”

The Chairman of the panel, Justice Chukwuma Eneh, said that the commission would accommodate all complaints and forward same to the state government.

“We will accommodate your story in our report and see if the government will do something to help you,” Ene said.

Source
www.punchng.com

ImperialYoruba:


I would love to catch a fulani herdsman in my snare one day. You will see hatred and racism, the type that UN security council rush in and condemn.

RockHard:


http://sunnewsonline.com/herdsmen-attack-rape-victims-facing-divorce-in-enugu-communities/

There you have it. An igbo newspaper has carried the news. Hope you are happy now?

Where is Mynd44 sef??

nduchucks:


You have to admit that the phrase "some of them" you used above is much better. It is the kind of qualification I was suggesting. Merely raining curses at herdsmen without making it clear that you are referring to some and not all of them, smacks of pure hatred and racism.

You are better than such hate filled rhetoric.