Ugwuanyi Set to Open IDP Camp for Nimbo People

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Ugwuanyi Set to Open IDP Camp for Nimbo People 
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Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, today announced that Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp would be set up at Ukpabi-Nimbo very soon to cater for those who abandoned their homes at the wake of last week's invasion and killing of residents of the community by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

The governor spoke as a coalition of 13 women based non-governmental organizations in the South East zone organised a peaceful protest over the recent killings in Nimbo.

Dressed majorly in black and bearing placards with various inscriptions, the protesters had marched from Okpara Square to the Enugu Government House and Enugu House of Assembly.

At the gates of the Government House where they were received by the state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the protesting women decried the killings, raping of “wives and our daughters,” abductions and maiming of people in vulnerable communities in the South East. While the widows tearfully narrated their ordeals to the governor, they lamented that they had no where to go as they didn't feel secure returning to their precious homes.

As at 10:30a.m. when more than 300 protesters majority of whom were women groups protested in front of Government House gate.

Addressing the protesters,  Ugwuanyi narrated how every effort he made to forestall the herdsmen attack were frustrated by security agents.

He consoled the women and people of Nimbo and appealed to those who ran away for dear life to return as government was about to set up IDP camp for them.

He also announced that the government and all the Bishops in the state would be holding prayers at Nimbo on Thursday to pray for God's intervention and return of peace.

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