The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo says the governors of the South-East are not doing enough to protect their people against killer Fulani herdsmen.
The factional President General of the organisation, Chief Chidi Ibeh disclosed this on Thursday in Enugu while briefing newsmen on the recent killing of eight people in Enugu State.
Recall that suspected armed herdsmen had on Aug. 1, 2021 invaded Mgbuji community, Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of the state during which eight persons were reportedly killed.
The assailants were also said to have injured and kidnapped many people and destroyed farmlands in the area.
Ikengaonline reports that this is coming barely one week after similar incidents that left scores of people dead happened at Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state.
Ibeh described the wanton killing and destruction of property as unacceptable to the organisation.
He said that it was more worrisome that the governors in the area had not taken any concrete steps to address herders menace frontally.
He said that the state chief executives had shown themselves to be weak and only interested in protecting and satisfying interests from the northern part of the country.
“The governors are very comfortable in their corners and that is why they are not doing anything about this.
‘They are very weak and playing politics with the lives of the people. They have failed to the extent that they have not protected our people,” he said.
.Ibeh said that it was sad that even after governors of Southern Nigerian made a resolution to enact the anti-open grazing law in their respect states, some of their colleagues in the South-East had shown no political will to implement it.
“You made a decision to ban open grazing of cattle, yet, nothing has happened,” he said.
He said that it had become necessary for the people to take their destinies into their hands by resorting to self-help.
“With what is happening now, we can understand that what we need is self-help as we cannot continue to wait in vain for the governors to protect us,” he said.
On the incarceration of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the factional president general appealed to the Federal Government to release him to the organisation.
He said that the organisation was closely monitoring situations surrounding the IPOB leader, adding that no harm should happen to him.
