- There’s reportedly tension in Obokofia, a community in Imo state, following the insistence by herdsmen on remaining in the community’s land

- A community member cried out over the ‘intimidation’ by the herdsmen; asking how a stranger can start threatening to kill people because he was asked to leave a community


- On his part, the special adviser to the state governor on media, Steve Osuji, has appealed for peace

There’s reportedly tension in Obokofia, a community in Ohaji/Egbema local council of Imo state, following the insistence by herdsmen on remaining in the community’s land even after a deadline was given for them to vacate.

According to Vanguard, some herders shot sporadically into the air on Wednesday, July 3 in a bid to scare members of the community and resist the ultimatum.


Legit.ng gathers that the herders have stayed put in the community, despite the intervention of the Ohaji/Egbema Transition Committee chairman, Damian Ezeru, which calmed down the situation.

The situation became even more tense following the failure of a meeting security meeting to hold, as Ezeru was reportedly attending an official meeting with Governor Emeka Ihedioha, alongside his colleagues.

The meeting will now take place on Friday, July 5.

A source reportedly stated: “The herdsmen are still in the community. They have not left. They are prepared for us but we don’t want to fight them.

We want peace in our land. “I want to ask, how can somebody come to your land and you tell him to leave and that person starts threatening to kill you? What sort of intimidation is this?


“We want them to move out of our farmlands. This is very bad. Do they want us to suffer as a result of lack of food to eat? This is too much. We want them to stop. We can’t continue like this.”

When contacted, the special adviser to the state governor on media, Steve Osuji, reportedly appealed for peace.

He said: “On the herders and farmers crisis, we just appeal to people to respect each others’ rights. Don’t invade people’s farms and destroy them.

“We will continue to engage the leadership of Hausa community in the state to advise their people to live peacefully with their host communities.”

https://www.legit.ng/1247075-tension-herdsmen-allegedly-occupy-farmlands-imo-community-refuse-leave.html

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Lalasticlala

This news looks fake how can a brave warrior beg a herdsman on his own land for peace?

This is unbelievable!!!

Are the herdsmen in thousands?

The news get k-leg

Iykopee:
This news looks fake how can a brave warrior beg a herdsman on his own land for peace?

o ya mi lenu o!

The same people jumping up and down, laughing after seeing the news of the herdsmen menace in the Southwest and beating their chest that nothing of such can happen in their zone

Once again the problem okorocha left is gradually creeping out and this particular one is the greatest of them all......


For years okorocha was busy empowering these guys against his own people.

Same okorocha that relocates market but refuses to relocate them even went to same new market and build quarters for them.

Ndi Imo should rise because the future looks bleak.

Op please can you drop the coordinates of their location. I've been cleaning my gun for days. Whether real news or fake news, I must go and investigate it myself.

By the way, IMO PEOPLE ARE COWARDS!!!

Lol, Ruga by force

Juliusmalema:
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Ndi Imo should rise because the future looks bleak.

Ndi Imo are fools with the blood of sheep running in them.

His can you let someone occupy your farmland and you're calling government. Is it the government that occupied the farmland??

BlacSmit:


Ndi Imo are fools with the blood of sheep running in them.

His can you let someone occupy your farmland and you're calling government. Is it the government that occupied the farmland??

My brother the problem Rochas created for them was much.

Okorocha was always siding these people against his own people because he wants to be president....


You don't blame them entirely as they can't do anything.

Enugu people chased them. The only thing Imo people can do is the kill people in churches when drug business go bad for them. Fools!

Wake up Ndi Imo. The fight is gradually coming near

Get Igp to arrest them. They are illegal immigrants.

Buhari will not send the army now to peacefully remove the herdsmen from there but when imo people will now start the removal on their own buhari will immediately send the army, airforce and even the navy to protect the herdsmen.
Ndi imo should act now and not wait for the govt.

The legacies of the Satanic APC Party through the clown callef Okoroawusa is still reverberating in Imo State.

Give a Fulani Herdsmen an inch and they will take a mile.

SEners should better arm their youths cos the futre is pregnant.

Okorocha the demon gave these people so much in Imo.
It's unfolding.

Benekruku do you see why no sane Southern state will ever accept ruga and anything likend after it? Fulani criminal herdsmen take and take by force without any recourse to the law. As it stands does it seem to you like the IGP will do anything to restore the land to their rightful owners? There will most likely be some reluctant concession for fear of attacks and it continues! Should that be the case? Have we no constitution anymore? Is this lifestyle by the fulani what the constitution envisages when it guarantees the right to live and work in any part of the country?

freeze001:
Benekruku do you see why no sane Southern state will ever accept ruga and anything likend after it? Fulani criminal herdsmen take and take by force without any recourse to the law. As it stands does it seem to you like the IGP will do anything to restore the land to their rightful owners? There will most likely be some reluctant concession for fear of attacks and it continues! Should that be the case? Have we no constitution anymore? Is this lifestyle by the fulani what the constitution envisages when it guarantees the right to live and work in any part of the country?

In as much as all you said is true, and resolutions have been made and shot down. I dont see the news as a surprise cos the normal trend will definitely continue and conflicts abound.

State Governors are not facing reality. They just like majority of Nairalander's. Take out point but cant add. When their is no change, status quo will continue.

Any conflict arising now is normal.

If people cant afford peace, they should be able to afford war.

In developer land
There are begging a stranger on their land
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izombie:
Buhari will not send the army now to peacefully remove the herdsmen from there but when imo people will now start the removal on their own buhari will immediately send the army, airforce and even the navy to protect the herdsmen.
Ndi imo should act now and not wait for the govt.

Remove them now

My fulani brothers are not on nairaland

Lol, if you check, you may find that the GOC of Owerri military barracks is a Fulani.

Rochas Okorocha invited them to RUGARize ndi Imo.

Peace pls

Benekruku:


In as much as all you said is true, and resolutions have been made and shot down. I dont see the news as a surprise cos the normal trend will definitely continue and conflicts abound.

State Governors are not facing reality. They just like majority of Nairalander's. Take out point but cant add. When their is no change, status quo will continue.

Any conflict arising now is normal.

If people cant afford peace, they should be able to afford war.

War is better than any forceful take over of peoples land by foreigners? Let the war start and let's see where it will take us to.
It is appointed for a man to die once.

Can anybody confirm this news from IMO state ? These days different news source push their narrative to drive traffic.

Where are the cheerleaders

No videos
No pictures
no audio evidence

Las las na Nigerian media go destroy this country.

OlawaleSmarter0:
- There’s reportedly tension in Obokofia, a community in Imo state, following the insistence by herdsmen on remaining in the community’s land

- A community member cried out over the ‘intimidation’ by the herdsmen; asking how a stranger can start threatening to kill people because he was asked to leave a community


- On his part, the special adviser to the state governor on media, Steve Osuji, has appealed for peace

There’s reportedly tension in Obokofia, a community in Ohaji/Egbema local council of Imo state, following the insistence by herdsmen on remaining in the community’s land even after a deadline was given for them to vacate.

According to Vanguard, some herders shot sporadically into the air on Wednesday, July 3 in a bid to scare members of the community and resist the ultimatum.


Legit.ng gathers that the herders have stayed put in the community, despite the intervention of the Ohaji/Egbema Transition Committee chairman, Damian Ezeru, which calmed down the situation.

The situation became even more tense following the failure of a meeting security meeting to hold, as Ezeru was reportedly attending an official meeting with Governor Emeka Ihedioha, alongside his colleagues.

The meeting will now take place on Friday, July 5.

A source reportedly stated: “The herdsmen are still in the community. They have not left. They are prepared for us but we don’t want to fight them.

We want peace in our land. “I want to ask, how can somebody come to your land and you tell him to leave and that person starts threatening to kill you? What sort of intimidation is this?


“We want them to move out of our farmlands. This is very bad. Do they want us to suffer as a result of lack of food to eat? This is too much. We want them to stop. We can’t continue like this.”

When contacted, the special adviser to the state governor on media, Steve Osuji, reportedly appealed for peace.

He said: “On the herders and farmers crisis, we just appeal to people to respect each others’ rights. Don’t invade people’s farms and destroy them.

“We will continue to engage the leadership of Hausa community in the state to advise their people to live peacefully with their host communities.”

https://www.legit.ng/1247075-tension-herdsmen-allegedly-occupy-farmlands-imo-community-refuse-leave.html

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Lalasticlala

How long have they occupied this community?

And to you the peace is by compulsorily allocating lands to fulanis in places they are not native to? Which Yoruba, Ikwerre, Ijaw or Igbo man did the FG ever allocate land to for his family and business in any state? Is it becasue they all acknowledge the existence of our constitution and reamain largerly peaceful? So the reward for criminal behaviour is to meet demands of criminals? That is to essentially hold the entire country to ransom so if the FG stops planned allocation of land to them they will intensify attacks, killings an other criminal behaviour? And somehow in the dark recesses of your mind you consider it the right and objective response? Who did this to you?

You say state governors are not facing reality, what about the FG that is solely responsible for internal and external security but fails repeatedly to arrest and decisively deal with criminal fulani herders? Just today Zamfara police have released 25 fulani criminals that were held by the state vigilantes due to 'banditry' as it is now called. This is the FG further compromising what little efforts states and communities put in towards ridding their society of criminals. In this case the state governor is forced to hold dialogues with bandits and criminals to negotiate peace because the FG has deliberately enabled them yet you feel their rubbish ultimatum is right and proper? And you wonder why Southern indigenous populations have roundly rejected any settlement scheme?

Benekruku:


In as much as all you said is true, and resolutions have been made and shot down. I dont see the news as a surprise cos the normal trend will definitely continue and conflicts abound.

State Governors are not facing reality. They just like majority of Nairalander's. Take out point but cant add. When their is no change, status quo will continue.

Any conflict arising now is normal.

If people cant afford peace, they should be able to afford war.

Watch as they will start shouting yoruba muslims up and down when their own house is on fire.

Ibos on ground are dodging this topic for fear their comments will offend macban.....

I asked, for how long has this Ibo community remained in possession of Fulani occupiers?

The main target of these Herdsmen is SE.. It's so obvious.

Instead of the SEasterners to go home and develop/open up their lands, they prefer running away to drag land in other regions leaving their ancestral lands and parents back home defenseless.

SW remains the most formidable region against external threats and we intend to keep it. that way.