MR PRESIDENT ITS MEDICINE AFTER DEATH - CHIEF IWUANYANWU SPEAKS ON FULANI MASSACRE
Following the recent attack and gruesome killing of dozens of indigenes
of Ukpabi Nimbo community in Enugu State by Fulani herdsmen, Elder
statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has raised an alarm about a
possible collaboration between Boko Haram fundamentalists and the Fulani
herdsmen to attack and put the country in more severe security threats.
This is even as the elder statesman has called on President Muhammadu
Buhari to accord the victims of the herdsmen attack in Enugu State and
other states in the country the same treatment the federal government
was giving to the victims of Boko Haram in the North East, because the
victims had lost everything to the attack.
Speaking at a press briefing in Owerri Friday, Iwuanyanwu said the
matter of herdsmen attack should no longer be treated with levity but
regarded as a matter that could seriously affect the peace, unity and
economic progress of Nigeria.
He expressed shock at what he described a new phenomenon about the
cattle rearers, because as he recalled, “For many years the Fulani
herdsmen have co-existed peacefully with the rest of Nigerians. They
have done their done their businesses and reared their cattle without
any harassment or raping”.
Iwuanyanwu called for the law enforcement agents to find out if the
so-called herdsmen were actually Nigerians because according to him,
their behavior was completely strange.
He stated that the greatest injury one could inflict on an Igbo man was
to attack and kill him in his home, saying it was even worse when the
man’s property, was destroyed, some lives lost while their women were
brazenly violated.
The elder statesman lamented that the action of the herdsmen had
resulted in poor agricultural production in Igboland and other parts of
the country where they were invading.
He stated that though president had directed the police and other law
enforcement agencies to crack on the herdsmen, the truth was that the
matter had assumed a dangerous dimension.
He expressed doubt that with police workforce overstretched, it was
impossible to get enough policemen to police farm lands in Igboland and
other parts of the country where the herdsmen were rampaging.
Iwuanyanwu urged the federal government to launch investigations to find
out where the herdsmen got the automatic weapons because by the laws of
the land, individuals were not allowed to carry automatic weapons.
He also demanded to know why there had been no arrest or prosecution or
conviction against any of the rampaging herdsmen since the invasion,
kidnapping and raping by the herdsmen started.
While expressing confidence in the ability of the president to the
matter urgent attention it deserved, bring the perpetrators to book and
ensure that those who lost the lives of their loved ones and property
were adequately compensated, Iwuanyanwu called on the Ohaneze youths and
other Igbo youths to exercise restraints and avoid reprisal attack on
the herdsmen.
This, he said, would jeopardize the life and property of many Igbo dispersed all over the country.
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