Even as calls for the rampaging Fulani herdsmen to leave their host states and return to the North keeps increasing, a dissenting voice has reared its head… and it is a strong one at that.
The governor of Ebonyi state, David Umahi has declared that there was no important or valid reason for the people of his state to demand that Fulani herdsmen withdraw from the communities within the state.
He noted that Ebonyi people and the Fulani herdsmen have an existing cordial relationship and there was no reason to tarnish that.
The governor, who revealed this on Tuesday, May 3 while speaking at an enlarged security council meeting at the International Conference Centre, Abakaliki, said that grazing routes would be created for the herdsmen in the communities so they can herd their stock without fracas or animosity in the state.
Meanwhile, the governor is not unaware of the mayhem credited to the Fulani herdsmen in other parts of the country as he described the massacre of about 46 people in Enugu as unfortunate.
Despite not wanting the herdsmen to leave his state, the governor instructed security operatives to mount surveillance and curb all the excesses of the herdsmen in the state, most especially at night.
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