Declare Herdsmen Terrorists, uphold Ogbunigwe – South-East tells IGP

The Southeast region, on Wednesday, demanded that herdsmen be declared terrorists and the establishment of Ogbunigwe security outfit be upheld. This came as the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu unveiled his community policing model to the people of the zone.

At the summit were Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, David Umahi, Winnie Obiano and Okezie Ikpeazu of Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra and Abia states respectively. Imo State Governor, Placid Njoku, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo and the Anglican Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Dr Emmanuel Chukwuma were not left out.

Nwodo spoke against the community policing that the IGP was on the verge of unveiling saying any community policing that was not under the command and control of elected leaders was dead on arrival.
“Inside our mind, what our people want is to own our security architecture. The law should find a way of allowing us to have our own Ogbunigwe. So far, the system has failed,” he said

Speaking on behalf of the clergy, Archbishop Chukwuma, said the people of Southeast would no longer condone activities of marauding Fulani herdsmen and as such they should be declared terrorists.
“we have had enough of killings and kidnappings; our people can no longer go to farm. The killer Fulani herdsmen should be declared terrorists now, the Federal Government should stop pampering them. If nothing is done about them, we have a mechanism to defend ourselves, both spiritually and otherwise,”