The President General of Ohuani Amagunze Town Union, Chief Francis Nnamani, made the demand yesterday on behalf of his people while testifying before the commission of Inquiry set up by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to look into the recent massacre of people and Destruction of Properties in Nimbo Community in Uzouwani Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Besides, Nnamani told the panel that they no longer want to see the Fulani,s in their farmlands, insisting that they{Herdsmen} should go back to their states.
While appealing to the relevant authorities to disarm the herdsmen whom he claimed were moving about in their community with sophiscated weapons, he said there was need to checkmate the activities of herdsmen.
Narrating the ordeal of his people in the hands of Fulani Herdsmen, Nnamani disclosed that One Mrs. Theresa Mbah was brutally raped by herdsmen when she went to her farm, adding she was later rescued by the local Vigilante Group in the community.
He claimed that the herdsmen, whom he said were always in groups, had a way of covering their tracks when they destroy crops.
Nnamani further recounted how one Ndubuisi Nworie was beaten right in his farm by suspected herdsmen in the community, adding that the incidence were reported to the Amagunze police station.
According to him, over 70 per cent of their people who are predominantly farmers where no longer farming as their crops were not safe, pointing out that their farm fields were devastated due to the settlement of the herdsmen in The community.
Culled: leadership newspaper
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