Okowa of Delta 21 days to send Fulani
herdsmen from the state
- Chairman of the group, Kehinde Taiga,
said if the governor fails, his group would
cause uproar in the state
- The group also called the state house of
assembly to enact a law to ban all
herdsmen from the state
Following the continuous massacre of
Delta people by Fulani herdsmen, a
human rights group has issued a 21-
day-ultimatum to Delta state Governor
Ifeanyi Okowa to address the issues
with an amicable solution, insisting that
failure to address the horrendous
activities of the Fulani herdsmen, there
will be uproar across the state at the
expiration of the days of grace.
Delta state, beside Benue state, has
become a hotbed for Fulani herdsmen
massacre as they go killing farmers with
impunity.
On Thursday, May 11, 2017, NAIJ.com
reported that a youth, whom the state
police public relations officer, Andrew
Aniamaka, identified as Udoka Ossai,
was allegedly murdered by the Fulani
herdsmen but at the early hours of
Friday, reports say six people were
killed in the rural community of Ossissa
of Ndokwa east local government area
of the state.
The development led to youths of
community barricading the expressway
leading from Asaba to Ughelli, searching
for Fulani herdsmen and preventing
free flow of vehicular movements along
the road. Security agents were said to
have been drafted to the area to quell
the uprising.
Prior to these killings and fierce battles,
there have been numerous killings and
battles in Abraka, Ughelli and Ndokwa
area of the state.
A few days back, the state governor,
sacked speaker Monday Igbuya and
commissioner for information, Patrick
Ukah, expressed unhappiness over the
killings of Deltans by the Fulani
herdsmen across the upland areas,
especially in Delta central and Ndokwa
areas of the volatile Delta state.
But groups in Delta are of the view that
the state government is being slow in
handling the issue of the Fulani
herdsmen massacre, consequent upon
which they have called on the governor
to, as a matter of urgency address the
issue of face mass action from the
people of Delta state.
Chairman of Committee for the Defense
of Human Rights, Comrade Prince
Kehinde Taiga, told NAIJ.com that his
committee is given Governor Okowa 21
days to drive the Fulani herdsmen from
the state, noting that if the governor
fails to do so, his committee would
mobilise the masses of Delta people to
stage action against the government and
would apply all means within its ability
to comb recognize forests and flush out
the herdsmen from the state.
Group gives Governor Okowa 21-day-ultimatum
to send Fulani herdsmen out of the state
In an emotion laden tone, consequent
upon the killing of Delta people, Prince
Taiga said: the killing of Delta people ,
Prince Taiga said: “I want to give the
governor 21 days to address the matter
or we will carry cutlass and battle axe to
defy all environmental laws to make sure
all the cows and herdsmen we kill them
personally.
“The 21 days is to be used to address the
issue amicably or else, we will mobilise to
totally flush out all herdsmen out of the
state. We will move into all local
governments and kill all their cows and
the herdsmen in the state.
“The Committee for the Defense of
Human Rights is against the killings of
our people. We are also calling on
members of the state house of assembly
to pass it into law that no herdsmen be
found in this state again.
“Just like what happened in Ekiti state ,
they passed it into law and it is effective
in the state. If he fails to do so, we will
block the roads, we will move across the
entire state, any herdsmen seen, any cow
seen we will kill them.
“Our decision is that all Fulani herdsmen
should be sent out of the state. They
should be totally out of Delta state. That
is our mind and we will stand by it.”
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