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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