*We did not kill anybody, detainees insist

Awka – THE Deputy President General of Ifite Ogwari Community in Ayamelum local government area of Anambra State, Chief Nwaora Ikeoala and the town’s chief security officer, Chief Michael Akamala have been detained at the Anambra State Police headquarters in Awka over the alleged killing of three herdsmen and some cows after the destruction of cultivated large farmlands in the area by Fulani herdsmen.

But the two community leaders, who spoke from their detention at the Special Investigation Bureau, SIB, Awka, on Sunday insisted that they never killed anybody, even as they admitted meeting after an attack on their farms to access the level of damage to crops by the herdsmen in line with the directive of the state government’s special security task force on farmers- herdsmen relationship in the state.

The state Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Baba Maiyaki, who also spoke with reporters, said three herdsmen lost their lives, but only one body was recovered, adding that it was the reason the community leaders were being detained, while investigation into the matter was continuing.

Vanguard gathered that the community leaders were arrested shortly after they held a meeting with Governor Willie Obiano, who was said to be worried about the increasing level of insecurity in the area.

Narrating their ordeal, the Deputy PG for Ifite Ogwari said: “We were in a meeting to access the damage done on our farms by the herdsmen when the Divisional Police Officer for our area called me and demanded to see us. When we went, he took us to many places and ended up at a mortuary at Adani but we did not see any dead body. Since then, we have been in detention without knowing what our offence was.”

He said his community was living peacefully with the herdsmen until the recent incident following the alleged invasion of the area by another set of herdsmen.

A nongovernmental organization, the Igbo Mandate Congress, which had intervened in the matter, claimed that it was the leadership of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria MACBAN, in the South East that alleged that youths of Ifite-Ogwari killed some herders and 108 cows between December 20, 2019 and January 27, 2020.

Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress, Reverend Obinna Akukwe said the organization has been following up the issue since Miyetti Allah leaders raised the alarm last week, adding that a preliminary report had already been sent to Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and members of the diplomatic community on the situation at Ifite-Ogwari, which, according to him, was capable of turning Anambra State into a theatre of war.

He said: “The community leaders of Ifite-Ogwari are being detained at the insistence of leaders of Miyetti Allah in the South East. The police justified their incarceration on the mantra that they are still investigating and looking for the killers of the herdsmen and the 108 cows.

Community, Kill Eight, Injure Several Others
“The legal adviser to the community, Mr. Michael Chukwuemeka, has been denied proper access to the detained elders and the Deputy President General is in bad state of health.

“Top officials of Anambra State government told IMC that Governor Obiano recently asked the Commissioner of Police to release the elders, but the Police declined, insisting that only order from Abuja can guarantee their release.

“The elders and youths of Ifite-Ogwari had made repeated efforts to get the attention of the state government to the tension, and they were repeatedly told to forgive their enemies for the sake of national unity. They claimed that at no point between December and January did the youth mobilize against the Fulani.”

“If anybody ever died, as claimed by Miyetti Allah, it could be as a result of a private clash between an infuriated farmer and herdsman, and the community was not involved in it.

“Igbo Mandate Congress advises Governor Obiano to stop taxing the Ifite Ogwari community, and pay from state coffers the N38 million the Miyetti Allah demanded for the allegedly killed 108 cows. The governor should also pay N18 million for the destroyed farmlands and N18 million for rehabilitation of families whose daughters and mothers have been senselessly raped since the state failed to protect the community after repeated alarms.”

It also urged the police to order the release of the community leaders and pay them compensation for what the groups described as illegal detention, even as it advised the youths of Ifite Ogwari to suspend any planned reaction and allow a solution to be worked out by concerned Igbo leaders.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/two-community-leaders-detained-over-alleged-killing-of-3-herdsmen-in-anambra/

How many herdsmen have been detained in Benue-Plateau for the wanton destruction of innocent lives and properties?

federal government children also known as first class citizens of Nigeria

Haha! Ibo chiefs are been detained in their own land. If thier chiefs can be detained what happen to ordinary citizens?

Instead of their useless governors to have their own version of Amotekun, they are busy licking Bubu ass and handing over their people life to Nigeria police that is already infiltrated by herdsmen.


Meanwhile, Amotekun stays.

What is good for the Goose is also good for the Gander, they say. If you can do the crime you can also do the time. Human life is sacred.
Whether its Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, Bandits, Igbos, Shires, Ritualist, Kidnappers e.t.c.

I think living in the same vicinity with host community is not by force if u can't maintain peace and orderliness. It's time we begin to show this fugitive and cancerworm that u must be ready to obey the rules and directions of ur landlords if u truly mean to survive here. South is not like north where u can kill and maim and nobody will ask any questions. Amotekun has come to stay in the west. Let's South East and South South come up with their formidable outfit. We are here to protect life and properties.

How true is this news ?
igbos are not violent people

Uwa bu biri kam biri

This is the biggest rubbish in the world

Hundreds of Christians killed in the north: Let's blame PDP administration, it's political, we will do something about it.

3 fulanis killed in the south: Arrest the community leaders immediately!

We're all created equal but some have ascended a higher equality than others by virtue of their tribe and religion

Lets Wait for His Excellency Pmb! He will tell us what happened...

Thats how we de run am..we are not Like thos afonja primitive cowards that will run when any Fulani man spits

Anambra state Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Baba Maiyaki ...“Top officials of Anambra State government told IMC that Governor Obiano recently asked the Commissioner of Police to release the elders, but the Police declined, insisting that only order from Abuja can guarantee their release.

Without state police headed and staff by indigenes every single Southerner is nothing but a slave of Hausa-Fulani.

People like to say one Nigeria. But have you ever asked yourself what one Nigeria means to Miyetti Allah? It seems for them one Nigeria means: Fulani and their herdsmen have the God given right to any piece of land anywhere in Nigeria. This is why we MUST return back to REGIONALISM otherwise the breakup of the entire country will become inevitable. And those of you that think Nigeria can never break up don't understand history. Very soon the generation of the old guards (the civil war generation) will all die off. The current generation of Nigerians will do ANYTHING to survive. If they believe balkanization is the only option, you can almost guarantee that Nigeria as we know it will be no more. Our leaders are daft. They do not see the hand writing on the wall. If they are smart they would move the country towards regionalism ASAP. Because eventually, this Fulani herdsmen issue will move this country beyond the point of no return. A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE.

If what happened in Benue/Plateau happened outside of Africa, every single Fulani herdsmen would be considered an enemy combatant. Nigerian security do not value Nigerian lives except it is Hausa-Fulani lives. Many Nigerians till this day do not even know that some Benue villages were completely cleared of human beings by Fulani militants. The agenda of Miyetti Allah is quite clear to those who can see and think. Their agenda is to dominate (using the instruments of fear and terror) Nigeria completely. And more than a few Hausa-Fulani elites are in total support of this evil agenda.

With all these evil killings going on in our darling nation,

It is so obvious that there are some politicians behind this evil herdsmen and all manners of killings going on in this nation as we all know prior now...

These evil sponsors want unrest, war and anguish all over the country, so they can come back into power to continue from where they stopped.

Damn it! Some bastards are out FULL FORCE to start war that will consume them and all their families in this country!

They will all die painfully and shamelessly and we will all be here to read about their demise.

If you are out supporting this evil politicians that ruined our nation also...... becareful so that the evil y'all support will not start at your doorsteps.


Again,

May all the evil and corrupt politicians that brought and keep sponsoring these evil herdsmen and satanic Boko Haram and KIDNAPPERS in our nation just to cause unrest and war for it's
citizens never end well in life.
Along with everyone that supports them.
Evil and miserable end await them all.
They will never know peace all the remaining miserable years they have to live.

May they suffer so much pains as long as they live on earth before dying in shame.
No be curse,
Na FACT.


We Rise!

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If you are not one of the people supporting the evil sponsors of the evil ones among these herdsmen and kidnappers, if you are not a hypocritical bigot,
kindly say A BIG AMEN To these prayers.

If you quote us without saying AMEN,
A big shame on your lives and the evil politicians you all support.
Bigots.

Deputy1111:
I strongly believe Nigeria will surely overcome this challenge, ...and those who led us into this will not end prosper.

Amen in Jesus name.
So shall it be.
God bless you.

festus2001:
Nigeria is still going to be Okay. Those who gather together and say this country won't have peace, God will uproot and silent them in Jesus name.
This country is a great nation.
Killings of innocent people everyday in this country will be end in Jesus name. And those who are behind all these things, God will scatter and destroy there Plans against this nation.
God bless Nigeria.

AMEN AMEN AND AMEN.
Stay blessed Festus!

Ignore whatever the bullshit above me said.

Meanwhile this is seriously serious.
Nigeria which way?

Abeg free them.What Erratic Nonsense.??Herdsmen deserve more than that.They are EVIL

Nawa

Presidency will react

Like if you feel the fulani herdsmen deserve what they got

Share if you think otherwise

How many Fulani herdsmen have been arrested in Ogun

Op it’s an allegation as no bodies have been presented and none of the Fulani in the community has said they’re missing anyone. Check ur headline

Lol

It's a Herdsmen Government

They should be detained and interogated on the reasons why they had to take the laws into their hands.

Write up clearly shows they about the killings and just denying. Investigations should be done and other culprits arrested and made to face the law.

They should be moved to Abuja as soon as possible before matter is being politicised.

In Ekiti they kill 8 and go free

Isokay

Hmmmm

Anambra don't joke

What are they being detained for

It is well.