Owerri—The Christian
Association of Nigeria, CAN, Southeast, has called on the five governors from
the zone, to take more pragmatic steps in ensuring that the reported
killings
by herdsmen, come to an end.
association, after a
closed door meeting they held in Owerri, issued a statement through the
Southeast Secretary of CAN, Nnabugwu Oluchukwu who told Vanguard that the
activities of the herdsmen in the zone, was not acceptable and should be looked
into in order to prevent outbreak of violence.
He said, “ We plead that the
governors of the Southeast states should react to this ugly development, hence
the Fulani herdsmen are continuously harassing rural communities in their
states.
We have had the attacks by Fulani herdsmen in Ndiagu Attaukwu village
in Akagbe Ukwu community, Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu state, and
recently in Akokwa in Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State. This is
indeed very sad and unpatriotic.
“It is wrong to hear that herdsmen are now
moving round the country with dangerous weapons to the point of invading rural
communities, destroying their farmlands and their economic crops especially in
this time of hardship, a situation which can affect the productivity of the
people and further push them to extreme poverty. We have to do the right thing
to end this.
“We also call on the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu
Buhari to ensure that these herdsmen said to be committing these atrocities
will be arrested and at the same time prosecuted in order to serve as a
deterrent to others who have similar intention.”
SOURCE: Vanguard
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