slammed the security agencies for the arrest
of 76 Igbo villagers from Ugwuneshi
Autonomous community, Awgu
Local Government Area of Enugu State
following a clash between the natives
and Fulani herdsmen.
Miffed by the action, Fayose said: "It has
gotten to a level that lovers of
peace in Nigeria must speak out against this
keg of gunpowder which is the threat that the
Fulani herdsmen have become."
About 76 men from the Ugwuneshi
Autonomous community were last
Thursday arrested and whisked away by
"men in military uniform" after
they protested the continued destruction of
their crops and farmlands
by Fulani herdsmen and their cattle who
settled in the area without
permission.
In his official reaction to the alleged arrest,
Governor Fayose, who
spoke through his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, said President Muhammadu Buhari
should address the killing
of Nigerians and destruction of farmlands by
the Fulani herdsmen.
The governor, who called for the immediate
and unconditional release
of the 76 Igbo villagers, said the President
Buhari's All
Progressives Congress (APC) federal
government must not give
impression that the Fulani herdsmen were
lords in other people's
lands.
Fayose said the Fulani herdsmen were giving
impression that
they now own Nigeria and could perpetrate
any crime and get away with
it. ThisDay
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