This is for people asking for pictures.

greatiyk4u:
“They pursued us, killed my friend and shot at me several
times but missed. They caught up with me and used
machetes on me until I lost consciousness.”

"He said one of them later discovered that he was alive and
called on the others to finish him off. They ignored him"



How possible is the above statements? Can he be unconscious and at the same time conscious?

stop over hyping the incidence,

he is not literate but you should understand him.
we talking about life your here talking about facts.

These communities are communities of fools. Surely deserve their deaths. Instead of forming vigilante groups to protect themselves, they were busy fleeing to neighbouring areas. There has been signs of these calamity since last year september, but being fools and weaklings, they remained unprepared and unconcerned. Nature has a way of flushing out fools like these.

This is boko haram phase 2. Unfortunately, these people are all over Nigeria killing Nigerians and nobody is bordered

Can a media firm organise a media chat and ask this mute president questions on these killings?

See my Igala brothers (Akor, Ejima, Akogwu etc ) de die there anyhow o. This time around the fight is between the Fulanis and other Nigerians. I hope Nigerians will win. Nobody should be a fugitive in his fatherland.

Father mbaka see your life After criticizing GEJ of being a bad luck, those f.oolish herdsmen still struck your state...
Make Enugu people continue to sleep, while this blood sucking demons invade your state. Nnamdi kanu said it, I predicted it, these people have formed alliance with Bokoharam. Gradually this conflict to the S.E. Igbos wake up oo, ka anyi ji enyiye chuwa Ewu ojii. PMB and his Fulani mafias have an evil plot for southern Nigeria, that's why he's keeping mute. It's Enugu today, tomorrow it maybe anambara, next Imo and Abia states..

Fadekebisola:

am not a south easterner so thats not the point....whether it was the way they did it in Enugu,akure or ibadan is not the issue....all am saying is southerners should stop boasting they cant come to their side..they can invade anywhere...moreover many persons here saying they cant do it in their village are far away in cities and only typing from convenience and would shut up wen it happens to them

U are making sense bisola

We pray that this issue of fulani herdmen should not turn to something else in the future .scores of ppl lost their life everyday because of this deadly herdmens

This is not the time to taunt, neither is it appropriate to ridicule or jibe at ibos for being victims of the fulani terrorists herdsmen massacre. I understand such misplaced derision is solely retaliatory for the previous usual callous mockeries made by ibos on other tribes who had suffered such. However, other tribes shouldn't descend to that level of insane abnormality, brash irrationality and reckless arrogant stupidity many (not all) ibos are known for. This is a matter that concerns us all and affects us all. I stand with the ibos, and commiserate with the peoples and communities affected by the carnage of the Islamic terrorists fulani herdsmen militia. We have a common enemy, and like it's said, The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We need to shove our differences aside, otherwise the enemy will undoubtedly exploit this singular weak point to unleash mayhem across the south. Whether Benue, Delta, Lagos, Enugu or any other place, an attack on one is an attack on all. We should stand by each other to forge lasting solution for our security and safety. Mocking at each other's misfortune is insanity, and worst is the enemy has the real laugh at us together for being exceptional fools. I stand with the South West, South East, South South...and every southern territory. We need to send a strong deafening message to these bloodthirsty marauding heartless Northern Islamic fulani terrorists savages that not one inch of southern lands will be yielded or ceded to them for whatever purpose. These are our lands, these are our people and we will fight with everything possible to defend, protect and retain our territory. And we just might start to have crazy ideas too, like conquering the North . We have the intelligence, resources and manpower to defeat the North, what we're lacking is UNITY. Let the Southern Nigeria wake up! This is a war we can and should win!

But when 7 Fulani herdsmen were missing in Abia the DSS and military invaded the area. Why are they silent now?

the people in the east has to do something nd stop blaming the government!!!! now its buhari nd everyone is calling for his head.... its sad!!! During the GEJ tenure, a similar happened case happened wen more Dan 300 people were massacred in Plateau state nd DAT was how every thing died...... The people must wake up from there slumber....

wristbangle:

U are making sense bisola

thanks wristbangle.....though u still confuse me with tosyne2much

Cray!

Despite how boastful, loud, and irritating a lot of Igbos can be - I actually feel sorry for the innocent Enugu folks. No one has the right to take the next person's life and 40-0 isn't a joke in a war of attrition, especially on home turf. Too one sided and unacceptable.

Anyway, I still don't how folks keep allowing the marauding Fulanis go on rampage without checking them. The more they commit carnage with loss of lives and properties, without being checked, the more brazen they would keep getting. And it's evident in the pattern of their attacks cos they have been able to put fear in everyone.

Just by reading about all these coordinated attacks and the pattern, you can easily deduce their tactics. So once you know their tactics - ambushing them is the easiest thing to do. I don't know why folks keep relying on a government that doesn't seem to care that much since th man at the helm is also a marauding Fulani cow jockey. Folks just need to arm themselves once they know there's an impending Fulani attack, strategise on how to ambush them when they come calling, and be watchful. It's always easy to defend yourself when you know someone is coming for ya head and the only reason why a lot of these folks are victims is cos they got too complacent in the face of danger/death.

If I may ask when pdp was on power n d boko goons also wipe out pple frm d north was jonathan d one sending them n did all dis coconut heads say anytin them, some vampires (fulanis) started kill pple frm no where some mofos are shouting buhari as even e was d one sending them, even ffk self dey talk ( if dem say make fish stand up craft fish self go won join), but on a serious note d gov't need to act fast on dis issue before it turns into sometin esle

WhoRUDeceiving:
See Okorocha lol. What an az.zclown. He spent the last 3 years traveling, dining, dancing with Fulani, Islamist, Coupist, even going to Rep of Ni.gga (aka Niger) for Presidential ceremonies with Alhaji's, yet see him.

Too bad for the EAST

Why is buhari silent about fulani herdsmen?

blueto:
Catholic church,11 houses burnt

It’s a national issue, not ethnic —OKOROCHA

Cattle owners, not herdsmen, should be questioned—OHANAEZE

By Emeka Mamah, Clifford Ndujihe, Chidi Nkwopara & Chinenyeh Ozor

NSUKKA—About 40 persons have so far been reportedly killed by some Fulani herdsmen at Nimbo in Uzo- Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, sources told Vanguard at Nsukka Police Area Command, near the area yesterday.

The incident took place barely 24 hours after stories filtered out that no fewer than 500 heavily-armed Fulani herdsmen sneaked into the community preparatory to launch an attack.

About seven villages in Nimbo (Nimbo Ngwoko, Ugwuijoro, Ekwuru, Ebor, Enugu Nimbo, Umuome and Ugwuachara) were among the areas attacked.

Ten residential houses and a church, Christ Holy Church International, aka Odozi Obodo, were also said to have been burnt by the herdsmen just as vehicles and motorcycles were destroed and domestic animals killed.

A young man, whose name was yet to be ascertained, was burnt inside a commuter bus belonging to one Ejima, son of a prominent man popularly called ‘Are you there’ near the Christ Holy Church, Nimbo.

A victim’s story

Kingsley Ezugwu, former Councillor, Nimbo Ward 2, was one of the victims of the attack.

Speaking from his hospital bed in Nsukka, Ezugwu said: “I was coming out from the house when I heard the community bell ringing. I was going with a friend to know what the bell was all about, only to see about 40 Fulani herdsmen armed with sophisticated guns and machetes.

“They pursued us, killed my friend and shot at me several times but missed. They caught up with me and used machetes on me until I lost consciousness.”

He said one of them later discovered that he was alive and called on the others to finish him off. They ignored him.

He said he crawled until a good samaritan helped him to the hospital.

Dead bodies litter hospitals
Refugees: Some residents fleeing the community.Refugees: Some residents fleeing the community.

So far, six dead bodies have been recovered and deposited at Bishop Shanahan Hospital, Nsukka, while others, who sustained injuries were rushed to Royal Cross Hospital and Enugu State District Hospital, Nsukka.

Meanwhile, villagers and other residents of the area were fleeing the town.

It’s a national issue—OKOROCHA

In its reaction to the development, the South-East Governors Forum, said what happened at Ukpabi-Nimbo is like any other national issue that deserves the understanding and cooperation of all Nigerians of goodwill to tackle.

Governor Rochas Okorocha, Chairman of the Forum, speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, said: “It is a national issue that also requires national approach to resolve.

“Our problem in this country is that whatever happens is given an ethnic colouration and that makes the solution to such problem somewhat difficult.”

It’s failure of governance—Ohanaeze

To the Secretary General of Ohanaeze, Dr. Joe Nwaorgu, the continuous killing of people across the country by herdsmen without any response from the Federal Government is a failure of governance.

He said: “We are very sad and very disappointed that all over the country, not just the South-East, these killings by Fulani herdsmen have continued unabated and nothing concrete is being done by the Federal Government.

“The first act of governance is protection of lives and property. It is complete failure of governance. There has been no response from the Federal Government and this is allowing the Fulani herdsmen to continue the killing spree.

“Everybody is worried about the poor attitude of the Federal Government to this massacre across the country. Boko Haram is operating in the North-East and Fulani herdsmen are killing people all over the country. It is not the herdsmen that should be held responsible, but owners of the cattle.

“The herdsmen are under the instruction of highly-placed Fulani people who own the cattle. They are heavily armed. How many cows can the herdsmen buy? Federal Government should stop this nonsense before it causes a catastrophe.”

Meanwhile, police sources said it would be difficult to say the actual number of those killed, even as the killing is spreading to other parts of the local government.

Similarly, member representing Uzo-Uwani constituency at the Enugu State House of Assembly, John Ukuta, said: “I am shocked that this has happened to my people. It is disturbing to learn that security men that were earlier assigned to ward off the rampaging herdsmen disappeared few minutes before they struck only to re-appear after they completed their horrifying assignment.

“This situation has become a national epidemic. People are leaving their communities in droves. Security agencies should move in now.”

Victims

The bodies of those recovered included that of an old man of about 85, and another young man whose throat was slit.

One of the victims, who was simply identified as Mr. Ajogwu, father of the former Councillor for Nimbo Ward 1, Sunday Ajogwu, had his left hand severed.

Another one had his stomach ripped open, spilling his intestines.

Traditional rulers lament

The traditional ruler of Nimbo, Igwe John Akor, told Vanguard on telephone that the attackers struck at about 7a.m. when they had left for their farms.

He said: “Most of those who were killed died in the early hours of the morning. We are still counting our losses. We have not started going into the farms and bushes to look for our dead brothers and sisters.

“When the situation becomes very calm, we will start looking for the rest of the victims. For now, our prayer is that the Federal Government sends security men to restore peace.”

Also reacting, the traditional ruler of Abbi community, Eze Fidelis Igwe, complained that his community had over the years suffered untold hardship in the hands of Fulani herdsmen, who he accused of maiming and gang-raping “our women at farmlands” in addition to robbing and kidnapping his people or stealing and destroying cash crops in the community.

He said: “This is the fourth time Fulani herdsmen have invaded our community in three years. The losses are too much for us to bear.

“The remaining people of the community have now taken refuge in neighbouring communities due to fear of another invasion by the herdsmen who do not give signs before striking.

“We have made several appeal to the Police, Uzo-Uwani Local Government and Enugu State government demanding for the Fulani herdsmen to leave our community, but nothing has happened.”

In his reaction, Igwe Herbert Ukuta of Igga in Uzo Uwani said: “I am appealing to the state government and the Commissioner of Police to send some detachment of police and military personnel to secure the lives of Igga community where I come from.

“The Fulani herdsmen had earlier threatened that Igga community is among the areas they will attack.

“They have now attacked Nimbo, which is among the areas they vowed to attack. Others are Echenwo and Abbi. Already, the people of other communities are fleeing their homes over fear of the herdsmen attack.”

Already, the Enugu State Police Commissioner, Ekechukwu Nwodibo, had visited the troubled community with the Area Commander for Nsukka, Monday Kuryasi, among other top police officers.

‘They evacuated their cattle’

The Fulani herdsmen had vacated the area with their cattle in the early hours of Saturday, before the attackers, who reportedly came from Nasarawa State, struck.

There had been anxiety in Nimbo following reports that about 500 Fulani herdsmen were assembling to attack the area.

It was gathered that fellow Fulani herdsmen at Adani had, at the weekend, imported about 500 others from Nasarawa State to help them invade Nimbo community on the grounds that some of their cattle were missing in the area.

Stakeholders’ wasted efforts

However, as a result of the development, stakeholders from the local government met, weekend, in Enugu to find solution to the incessant attacks, kidnap and rape by herdsmen on communities in the local government.

According to sources, Chairman of Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Cornell Onwubuya, had alerted Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the state Commissioner of Police, Ekechukwu Nwodibo, of the threat.

Onwubuya was said to have further alerted other stakeholders who met leaders of the Fulani community in Enugu State on the impending attack.

Speaking at the emergency meeting held on Saturday, Onwubuya said the local leaders of the Fulani community also confirmed that there were attempts to bring in mercenaries to attack some communities in Uzo-Uwani, adding that the Fulani leaders in Enugu had complained that some of their people were killed within the axis of Nimbo and Abbi communities in the recent past.

Fulani leader’s failed assurance

At the meeting, Enugu State leader of the Fulani community, Alhaji Haldo Saidu Baso, said he had lived in Enugu State for over 33 years and would not be alive to witness the type of crisis they were talking about.

The Fulani leader said he would talk to his people not to take laws into their hands but to report disturbing issues to the traditional rulers of the communities.

Vanguard learned from a native, who witnessed the gory scene that the herdsmen were armed with AK-47 rifles, and came with two buses fully loaded with arms and ammunition at about 7.13a.m.

Police, Army move in

Contacted, Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, said: “The Commissioner, Ekechukwu Nwodibo, is in the area with a combined team of Army and Police. I can confirm there were casualties but the exact number is still what I do not know.”

At press time, efforts to speak with the Local Government Chairman failed as he claimed to be at the scene of the crisis with Nwodibo and other police officers.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/bloodbath-enugu-fulani-herdsmen-kill-40/


Photo: Refugees: Some residents fleeing the community.

ths people are from nigeir country.they been able to achieve this due to fragmentations of villeges i n south. the lack of will for collective efforts.
how can just 500 attack a village.
even with small pistol u coul made it 50:50 atleast.
ths iw a sign that everybody should have a gun.
it won't stop soonest. don't deceive urself
some other community are being prepared for now

Fadekebisola:

thanks wristbangle.....though u still confuse me with tosyne2much

We are different

wristbangle:

We are different

okay

The Fulanis are capable of taking care of themselves, what the Igbo don't know is that Fulani unlike the Hausa man who will walk away when you offend, cheat or harm him but the Fulani will take revenge even if it takes him 100 years to prepare for a reprisal.
So let's be careful and just in whatever we do.

Rochas Okorocha is a disgrace to the Igbo race. The matter is not over yet

What's the president doing about this impending mayhem?

Ishilove:
This is serious. Unto cow, kwa??

Let them come to Delta state and see Kwale people in action. Their cows will be the first set of casualties.

Seriously though, I forsee this issue becoming the catalyst for renewed calls for national disintegration

They av invaded Obiaruku towns farmland oooooooo.. but the vigilantee are ready 4 dem today.. The cultists are even happy to publicly display deir strength against d cowards.. i pity dem sha

what's the different between Hausa and Fulani I wanna know

Well, my own submission is a question: why are they killing people? Is it an action or a reaction? The solution to this problem lies in identifying the causes of killings.

I thought the Igbos said Yorubas are cowards... Hahaha!! I laugh in greek. See the way they killed u like fowls. The idiots are fast to call us cowards after the LAGOS (MILE 12) clash, but they couldn't repel an attack on their own very land.

SonofDevil:


Kwara state. Has more than 3 tribes that claim indigenes..
But what can you say about fulani herdsmen coming to heart of igboland engu
To butcher ur village head like a Ram.and send away ur families from their ancestral land to seek refugee in another place

first of all, I don't think I mentioned Kwara. I mentioned Ilorin which was a Yoruba town, now ruled by a Fulani royal household. Try and change that situation to an OBA before you resume talking.

Enugu is totally peaceful, as I write. In fact I am in the GRA section of Enugu and hardly anyone knows of what is happening at the remote location of Uzo Uwani in Enugu state. Even at that Uzo Uwani is not at risk of ever having an emir installed there. In fact the information trickling down to me is that all the herdsmen have left the vicinity and the fulani settlement nearby has been completely deserted.
It is almost as they are now expected a brutal response. They obviously did not bargain on the backlash.

They will have some explaining to give on why they left the host community when they knew their kinsmen were about to attack, if they ever plan on coming back.

From now on they will know that they will never be trusted, and the fact that they chose to draw blood of the host community, will prove to be their undoing, as they have permanently marked themselves as ripe for attack, intimidation, rape and brutalisation by the host community whenever they choose to do so, from now onwards.

Also I am from Anambra , a state Fulanis avoid to confront like a plague. Fulanis in Anambra see Asaba as a safe haven. That really say it all.
At the slighest sign of trouble, fulanis scamper to Asaba sharp sharp, to avoid the Anambra mean retribution.

Please give my regards to the Fulani Emir of Ilorin

I blame my self to be born a Nigerian

Fadekebisola:

okay

. My prayer is that these demons will not cause further havoc in any region In Nigeria. It is now shoot on sight at these bastards.

Where is Massob,Bakassi boys and IPOB?

Shame on you guys.

mbatuku2:
These communities are communities of fools. Surely deserve their deaths. Instead of forming vigilante groups to protect themselves, they were busy fleeing to neighbouring areas. There has been signs of these calamity since last year september, but being fools and weaklings, they remained unprepared and unconcerned. Nature has a way of flushing out fools like these.

You have a point there, but ....

Dss no go investigate this one.... But kill one fulani man ul see Dss director sef fly in