Herdsmen: Diaspora Igbo group harps on preventive measures
Igbo diaspora group called Igboezue Association of Nigeria and
International has joined other eminent personalities and various groups
in Nigeria to condemn the killing of people at Nimbo in Uzo Uwani Local
Government Area of Enugu State by people suspected to be Fulani
herdsmen, telling President Muhammadu Buhari to collaborate with
relevant stakeholders to ensure adequate preventive measures to avoid
reccurrence.
The group in a statement issued in Onitsha by its President, Elder
Pius Uchenna Okoye said that the need for adequate preventive measures
is imperative because further attacks could amount to pushing people to
the wall and engineer reprisal attacks thereby plunging Nigeria into a
full scale crisis.
Elder Okoye commended members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
and Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB) for not waging a reprisal attack against the northerners in
Southeast in revenge of the killing of people at Nimbo in Uzo Uwani.
“killing people who are struggling to survive with challenges of lack
of fuel, epileptic power supply, joblessness and increasing rate of
poverty and hunger is outright invitation to war because people cannot
fold their hands and watch the Fulanis destroy them, so we thank God
that there was no reprisal attack” the statement added
Okoye also commended the reaction of the Senate by summoning the
Service Chiefs, adding that efforts should be made to get to the root of
the killing of innocent Nigerians by the Fulani herdsmen because
Nigerians have begun to read negative meaning into the cruel acts of the
herdsmen by insinuating that they are championing a religious war
against Christians in north central and southern part of the country.
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