Enugu Community Protests Government’s Plan To Establish Cattle Ranch For Herders, Nearly 8 Years After Massacre By Militia

Hundreds of Nimbo community residents in the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State have staged a peaceful protest against the state government’s plan to establish a cattle ranch for herdsmen in their community.

Among the protesters were people widowed or orphaned by the killing of 40 residents of the community by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on April 26, 2016, during the government of former President Muhammadu Buhari.

SaharaReporters gathered that the community held the protest on Tuesday along the Nsukka - Uzo-Uwani - Anambra Federal Highway.

A video of the protest seen by SaharaReporters on Friday shows the protesters, who were mostly women and youths, displaying placards and chanting: "Nimbo doesn't want cattle, doesn't want ranching."

One of the placards reads, ‘Nimbo Community Says No To Cattle Ranch In Their Land QED.’

A resident of the community told SaharaReporters on Friday that protests in Nimbo followed an alleged plan by the state government to establish a ranch where the town shares a border with Kogi State.

"The plan followed a government inspection team to the area, nearly eight years after the April 25, 2016 Nimbo Massacre, during which armed Fulani herders murdered 40 indigenes of our town.

"The incident followed farmer-herder clashes in the general area where the RUGA (Rural Grazing Areas) settlement is allegedly being planned to be sited."

RUGA is an initiative of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to address the herders-farmers’ clashes in the country but it was rejected in most of the southern states.

Efforts to speak with the President General of Nimbo Town Union, Clement Akogwu, were unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, the state government has confirmed that it is establishing a ranch in the community. It said it would manage ranching as a measure to solve permanently the farmers-herders clashes in the state.

A senior government official told SaharaReporters that the ranching is going to be fully controlled by the government.

https://saharareporters.com/2024/02/09/enugu-community-protests-governments-plan-establish-cattle-ranch-herders-nearly-8-years

The 2016 massacre was just a dwellers relocation exercise.
You see why Nigeria is 10 steps back and one forward? Because of conquest mentality, they left northern states that are twice the entire 5 SE states in landmass to go kill them and establish a useless ranch.

Which government wants to rob salt on their injuries?

if you guys don't want them then stop buying cow meat you can't eat your cake and have it

They are burning Igbo markets all over Nigeria & this foolish Igbo governor wants to establish a Fulani colony in his state?

NLCreator:


https://saharareporters.com/2024/02/09/enugu-community-protests-governments-plan-establish-cattle-ranch-herders-nearly-8-years

this fool should understand that he cant please stranger to displease his people

Let them buy the land

This had better be a joke!

Lols, there's nothing like that

We won't take any clandestine move to hand a part of it our land to the marauding terrorists.




Maybe this is what they told the current mandate thief in Enugu to provide for them in exchange for his mandate to be sustained by the 'Supreming Court'.


He should give out lands in Owo to them instead, not a parcel from Nsukka will be leased.

This man wants what happened in orlu to happen in this community. One of the reasons why Biafra separatists fought the military in orlu is because there was an alleged plan for the governor to establish a cattle ranch in orlu. Today that ranch was not established.

I don't know why our governors are sometimes dumb. Why do something that will escalate insecurity in Enugu state? Well, this is what you get when inec impose fraudulent governors against the people's wish

I can never support such move

Oceanfl0w:
Lols, there's nothing like that

How so ?

Meanwhile, the state government has confirmed that it is establishing a ranch in the community. It said it would manage ranching as a measure to solve permanently the farmers-herders clashes in the state.



A senior government official told SaharaReporters that the ranching is going to be fully controlled by the government.

JAOS:
if you guys don't want them then stop buying cow meat you can't eat your cake and have it

Ezi

There's nothing like PDP anymore.

What we have now are 2 factions.

PDAPC - the majority
ADP - Atiku democratic party - the minority

Unfortunately both sides are pro Fulani herdsmen.

The one in Enugu is PDAPC

If that mandate thief from owo in nkanu tries it, heads will roll!!! I repeat, dogs and baboons would be soacked in blood, I don't want to see any Adeyinka, Adeniyi or Segun hawking hot drinks in the street of Igbo land again, this is my last warning

Make una no gree oooo!

Lost priority

Cattle ranching would best be established in the North where the herders are of the same religion and culture to avoid conflict.

It could be the agreement the reached with governor before declaring him the winner, coz he clearly did not win the election

Omo… this country

JAOS:
if you guys don't want them then stop buying cow meat you can't eat your cake and have it

Anu ohia.
Just see your life. Legodi how your life don bend. If they don't want them then stop buying cow meat. Your father

That's how it starts! Years to come, they will claim owners of the land

Make Enugu government no try the Igbo youths resolve. As simple as short and let fulanis better and better steer clear. We can't take shit from home anymore

Trouble just dey smell. How can a sensible government use the scarce resource to establish ranch for free for private use? Anyway we dey watch to see how everything goes

What happened to all the land in the north

Hmm....we the youths if the town are on our way to see the governor to give him this our special treatment


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex__6LcJr8E

Good news

Ranch should be in the north

Federal government can reclaim desert for this purpose

Probably one of the criteria for the “owners of Nigeria” to turn our laws upside down and give him Labour Party’s stolen mandate.

Another is probably to join APC at a later date.

The terrorism on the southerners is enabled by power hungry southerners.