Yet again, Agu-Amede in the Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State has come under heavy attack as armed men said to be herdsmen have invaded Imamamaru village.

The assailants killed two villagers and injured several others.

The bandits also burnt about four houses, SaharaReporters learnt on Tuesday.

SaharaReporters gathered that the incident occurred on Saturday, some days after a similar attack at Isiado village which left two people dead.

SaharaReporters reported on Monday that bandits suspected to be Fulani herders launched an attack on a community in the area, killing one person.

The recent attack in Isiado and Imamamaru villages has forced people to flee their homes.

Aged women, pregnant and nursing mothers and children are being relocated to neighbouring communities and villages which are safer, a community source told SaharaReporters on Tuesday.

A community leader, Ephraim Ogbu, who confirmed Saturday’s incident to SaharaReporters, decried the unprovoked attacks.

"The second attack at Imamamaru Agu-Amede after killing those two people at Isiado Agu-Amede. Our people are currently living in danger," he said.

"A young man who is currently lying in a hospital bed was inside his house at Imamamaru village when the invaders launched the attack. Immediately he ran out of his house, they grabbed him and macheted him. You can see what they did to him. We don't know whether he will survive it. How can someone stay in his house and a foreigner will attack him and want to still live in that community?

"We learnt that the herders engaged soldiers deployed in Eha-Amufu when they were patrolling the community. So, the soldiers engaged and overpowered them. They retreated and when the soldiers left, they launched the attack on innocent residents."

SaharaReporters reported on January 3, 2024 that gunmen suspected to be herders had launched an attack on Agu-Amede community in the Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu, killing two young men who were there for Christmas celebration.

It reported that communities in Eha-Amufu town including Agu-Amede, Mgbuji, and Abor witnessed large-scale attacks in 2021 and 2022 by herders in collaboration with militias from Benue State.

Efforts by SaharaReporters to get the reaction of the spokesperson for the state police command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, failed as he did not answer his calls or respond to a text message sent to him.

Source: https://saharareporters.com/2024/01/23/enugu-community-boils-herders-invade-agu-amede-kill-two-injure-others-raze-houses#google_vignette

This is where Community security outfits become very necessary

Benue boundary community. Their trespass will be checked

Herders.....are you guys ready for return leg?

E no go funny oh

Bad

Why are these herders so stubborn?

Must they ply their trade at the expense of people's ancestral lands, properties and lives?

I hope they are aware that they have an equal and brutal match in ESN?

Hmmmmm. Herders are brutal. You don't treat them with kid gloves.

RIP.
All the communities in Enugu and Ebonyi that have close boundary with Benue are prone to herdsmen attack. Something urgently needs to be done about it.

This is front page material for ronu people

They should be given the hamas treatment

As long as is not chinaza news .

Watch as the Ewedu licking beggers hide

all these herders are camped and hidden in benue forests the can easily attack igbo villages close to the botders if only Esn could be allowed to operate like a normal vigilante group they would be floushed out.

The job of some Igbos and Yoruba here on nairaland is find bad news from each other's region.

May God help una.

RIP to the dead.

Crazy thing is Agu-Amede is more along the Benue border than Enugu and the people speak more Idoma, and then there are Igbo communities from Ebonyi that are in Benue, border demarcation really messed up this country.

longetivity:
The job of some Igbos and Yoruba here on nairaland is find bad news from each other's region.

May God help una.

RIP to the dead.

Check the OPs recent topics! You’re spot on! He looks for negative news on Ndigbo/south-east to create threads on, while looking for positive news on the Yoruba/south-west that leaves them smelling of roses and goodness!

If you guys in Enugu cannot take care of this problem, pls bring in Awka boys or Omor boys from Anambra state. Those ones are worse than Fulani. Nimbo back then have to ask Awka boys for help and after the help, Nimbo became a no go area for ndi Fulani. Do the same and stop whining like women in labour. I hate nonsense

Elieh:
This is where Community security outfits become very necessary

Let us not deceive ourselves.
Community security cannot tackle AK-47 wielding bandits.

Notice that the story said the soldiers retreated and the terrorists attacked. The soldiers are there to prevent the people from going on the offensive and giving them time retreat to Benue but the ESN will surely find them and when they do the story will be 'Biafra separatists attacks Nigeria Army' in the media

EmekaA125:
RIP.
All the communities in Enugu and Ebonyi that have close boundary with Benue are prone to herdsmen attack. Something urgently needs to be done about it.

Exactly, it's just the boundary that is shielding these herdsmen.

I pity those villages and settlements along south east boundaries

LOVEALAIGBO:


Check the OPs recent topics! You’re spot on! He looks for negative news on Ndigbo/south-east to create threads on, while looking for positive news on the Yoruba/south-west that leaves them smelling of roses and goodness!

Insecurity in south east but you are all wailing about your Yoruba masters while also playing the victims your generation is well known for.

ESN don run forget their sandal.
-kiss the truth!

Dpharisee:
Notice that the story said the soldiers retreated and the terrorists attacked. The soldiers are there to prevent the people from going on the offensive and giving them time retreat to Benue but the ESN will surely find them and when they do the story will be 'Biafra separatists attacks Nigeria Army' in the media

Get yourself an eye glasses and read it again sl ow ly. And then get someone intelligent to interprete for you line by line.

-kiss the truth!

SeeWahala:


Exactly, it's just the boundary that is shielding these herdsmen.

I pity those villages and settlements along south east boundaries

So sad.

What kind of con3 is this?

Who created Nigeria?

IPOB nairaland apologist will tell you ESN has made southeast secured from Fulani herdsmen attacks.Meanwhile some villages in Enugu state is a no go area because of herdsmen terrorist.

PureFace1:


Insecurity in south east but you are all wailing about your Yoruba masters while also playing the victims your generation is well known for.

Don't know about 'Yoruba masters', but if you can't see the campaign of calumny and hate the OP is enagaged in on this forum, then you're just as deceitful as he is! Isn't there enough insecurity in the south-west for the OP to occupy his time with? Or is the south-west a oasis of peace in a sandstorm of widespread insecurity in Nigeria?

Imagine Peter Obi was the president bandits issue would have become a thing of the past. I remember few weeks to the last elections when the whole Nigeria thought the elections would be free and fair and that Peter Obi would win. Bandits started fleeing.all of us remember those weeks and there was no single killing,..infact Sahara reporters carried a news where bandits was sharing old naira notes and buying up CFAs enroute to leaving Nigeria because they said Peter Obi is a devil ( very false) around February, then Mahmoud falsely declared tinubu and bandits rejoiced because they saw tinubu as business as usual. They killed about 50 in benue in March a week after elections results and have continued the killings even killing almost 500 people in plateau on Christmas Day unchallenged because they don’t have any regards for tinubu

matify83:
Why are these herders so stubborn?

Must they ply their trade at the expense of people's ancestral lands, properties and lives?

I hope they are aware that they have an equal and brutal match in ESN?

Dead brain which ESN

ESN should be more proactive along these border lines

How? B-b-b-but our brave blodas have chased all Fulani herdsmen from the SE. Fulanis cannot operate in the SE again (the only region safe from them). Or is all of that talk the usual legendary empty chestbeating by our blodas?

This is terrible.😞

Ogene001:
Benue boundary community. Their trespass will be checked

Fulani herdsmen have sacked hundreds of Communities in Enugu alone. This is so sad. If action is not taken, Fulani herdsmen will take over the entire East before d end of this year.