Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has notified Anambra indigenes resident in United States that the criminals terrorizing the Southeast are not Fulanis but Igbo indigenes.
There had been the notion that most of the kidnap activities
taking place in the South East were done by Fulani terrorists living in bushes
in the zone and disguising as herdsmen, which intent to conquer.
But while addressing indigene of Anambra in the US, during a
town hall meeting in Maryland, the governor insisted that 99.99 percent of
criminals arrested in Anambra were not Fulani, but Igbo.
He said: “The so-called liberators hiding in the forests are
homegrown criminals feeding fat on blood money. They come under the guise that
they are the ones protecting you from Fulani herdsmen.
“They live in the bushes for months, but no one has ever
asked how these so-called liberators survive in the forest. They have to feed,
who is paying for their services, don’t they have needs?
“In my three years and three months in office, 99.99% of the
kidnappers and other criminals we’ve arrested are Igbo. Let’s stop the lies.
Igbos are kidnapping and killing fellow Igbos, not Fulani.”
Meanwhile, a rights group, International Society for Civil
Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has countered the governor, insisting
that herdsmen were actually in bushes in the zone.
The group accused Soludo’s administration of “shielding
Jihadist herdsmen since 2022 and dangerously dragging Anambra State into
Federal Government’s (Fulani) Ranching compliant state and sitting the state on
a keg of jihadist gunpowder.”
In a press statement by the Board of Trustees Chairman of
the group, Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi, it said: “We’re strongly puncturing Gov
Charles Soludo’s Maryland speech in the USA, exonerating Jihadist Fulani
Herdsmen in Anambra’s Forest and Farmland Insecurity.”
Umeagbalasi added that some communities in Awka South, Awka
North, Oyi, Ayamelum, Orumba South and North, Dunukofia, all have camps
inhabited by Fulani terrorists herdsmen.
“The State Government has also severally been found to have
joined conventional security establishments in the state and beyond in
shielding these jihadists and shifting blames over their atrocities to militant
IPOB or ESN or Unknown Gunmen.”
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Soludo, your narratives are wrong. I mean why are you people demarketing your own people and exulting the Fulanis who are the real problems of insecurity in Niogeria at last. By the way, your score card should have been done here in Anambra, why the US?
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