…Regulate Their Movement, Monarch Tells Govt.
… Quit Our Community, PG Tells Herdsmen
By Christy Aboghe
Obi of Ubulu-Uno and second Vice Chairman, Delta State Council of Traditional Rulers, His Majesty. Obi Kikachukwu Henry Afamefune has appealed to the state government to regulate the movement of herdsmen, as they are lynching attack on his people.
The Monarch made the plea while speaking with our reporter in Ubulu Uno, Delta State.
He said their actions were worrisome as his people could no longer go to their farms which have been taken over by the herdsmen and their cattle, hence they should stay away from the farmlands.
The Monarch charged security agencies to help put a stop to the odd movement of the Cattle rearer as it was becoming unbearable.
On his part, the President General and Owelle of the community, Chief Austin Ugbechie appealed to the herdsmen to leave the community.
Ugbechie said no land space was given to them for grazing of their cattle by the community, hence they should quit, adding that failure for them to leave would result to a protest by the people of Ubulu Uno.
According to him, reports of their activities, such as molesting people, raping their women and other countless atrocities in the community become unbearable.
Expressing displeasure over the gruesome act of the herdsmen, one of the Indigene of the Community, Barr. Godwin Okoh called on the State Government to come to his aid as their calmness was been taken for granted.
Okoh said the herdsmen had also destroyed his establishment, the Ubulu Unor Secondary School fence, scaring students out of the school premises during school hours with the presence of their cows.
He said their disastrous act was overwhelming and if not curtailed could lead to crisis.
Narrating his ordeal, the victim, Mr Francis Ngele said, upon asking the herder who was on his farmland to graze his cattle to move the animals away while he work, unknown to him the herder lynched him with a cutlass when he turn to clear his farm.
