Enugu Herdsmen Attack: Ugwuanyi Summons Emergency Meeting with Traditional Rulers, Others

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Enugu Herdsmen Attack: Ugwuanyi Summons Emergency Meeting with Traditional Rulers, Others

Following his visit to Ukpabi Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State to sympathise with the people of the area over the attack unleashed on them by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, today, summoned an emergency meeting with the traditional rulers, president-general of Town Unions and leaders of the neighborhood watch in all the communities in the state.
A reliable source disclosed that the meeting which is part of series of action plans of the state government to find a lasting solution to the menace of the Fulani herdsmen in the state is scheduled to hold on May 2 at the old Governor’s lodge, Enugu at 1p.m.

The source also revealed that the governor was determined to put an end to the ‘inhuman’ acts by the herdsmen which consumed the lives and property of innocent citizens of the state as well as threatened the peace and security of the state and the nation at large.  

The governor had while addressing the people of the Nimbo community called for peace, fasting and prayers for the intervention of God, assuring them and the people of the state that he will do everything possible with his constitutional powers to end the incessant menace posed by the herdsmen in the state.

He also disclosed that when he got a security report last Sunday that the attack will take place in the community, he immediately summoned an emergency meeting of the state security council which met that Sunday night till the early hours of Monday, shortly before the herdsmen struck, regretting that the ‘sad’ incident eventually occurred after all the assurances given to him by the security operatives that the attack will not happen.


The scheduled meeting, according to the source, is expected to map out the best strategies that would promote peace and end the attacks from the herdsmen.

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