Detained Enugu Farmers Freed, Leaders Hail Ugwuanyi

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Detained Enugu  Farmers Freed, Leaders Hail Ugwuanyi


Sequel to the release from prison of the 76 farmers from Ugwuleshi Autonomous Community in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, after they were granted bail by Magistrate Courts in Umuahia, Abia State, the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Godwin Nwobi, and other leaders in the area today commended the efforts of the Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, over the release of the farmers.

The governor had during his visit to the community last Tuesday made a donation of N8.5 million as compensation for those whose farmlands were destroyed and for logistics to facilitate the release of the detained villagers.

While noting that the freed farmers arrived at their homes safely to unite with their loved ones after they were granted bail, the people of the community through their traditional ruler, Igwe Nwobi, and other political stakeholders appealed to the federal government to find a lasting solution to the challenges encountered between the nomadic Fulani/Hausa herdsmen and indigenous farmers in their community over grazing on farmlands by which the farmers alleged destroyed their crops.
  
They said a lasting solution to the problem will go a long way to end the menace of the herdsmen and promote a peaceful and harmonious existence between the villagers and Fulani herdsmen.
   

Commenting further on Ugwuanyi efforts to calm frayed nerves and reducing tension on the matter, Nwobi said the intervention of the governor made it evidently possible for the people to be granted bail and released to return home on that faithful day the bail was granted at Magistrate Courts in Umuahia.

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