The Indigenous People of Biafra said it had the premonition that a time would come when Fulani herdsmen would be unleashed on the people of the South-East and South-South. IPOB frowned on the killing of innocent citizens by Fulani herdsmen in three communities of Ebonyi State and some parts of Enugu State on Sunday and Monday nights.

The IPOB Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, said in a statement on Thursday that those who wanted the proscription of the ESN should as a matter of urgency provide alternative security outfit for the zones. The Defence Headquarters and the police did not respond to the allegations by IPOB.

The spokesmen for the Defence Headquarters, Brig. Gen. Bernard Onyeuko; the Army, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Yerima; and the police, Frank Mba, had yet to respond to calls and text messages seeking their reactions as of the time of filing this report.

In a related development, a former attorney-general and commissioner for Justice in Imo State, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume (SAN), on Thursday condemned the killing of residents in four communities in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State by suspected herdsmen, saying the government was “appearing helpless, inactive or unperturbed.” According to him, if such killings could take place where there were security agencies, the government was not doing enough.

Ume in a statement he signed in his capacity as the Rapporteur of a Civil Rights Organisation and Victims of Persecution regretted the incessant mass attacks on innocent citizens in the country.

Source: The Punch