Following
the recent attacks and invasion of communities and massacre of innocent
citizens by the Fulani herdsmen across the country, prominent Igbo
leaders, at a meeting over the weekend, decided on need for the Igbo
nation to organize the people for self-defence against the invasion and
killing of Igbo indigenes by the Fulani herdsmen.
The dreaded Bakassi Boys, a violent
vigilante group mobilized to terminate the troubling armed robbery
menace in the south east some years ago, were revealed to have started
regrouping to strengthen other vigilante groups to provide security for
local communities and towns in the south east , former leaders of the
group who are still alive have been summoned to facilitate the
regrouping of the Bakassi Boys and also handle the recruitment of new
members.
A source from the long-disbanded
vigilante group revealed that their assignment is mainly to contain the
Fulani miltia and ensure that they no longer cause destruction in any
part of Igbo land. He added that they are fully empowered to respond
speedily to attack on any part of Igbo land by the Fulani herdsmen, as
he called them.
“The action has become necessary because
it appears the Federal Government is not ready to protect our people
being attacked by the Fulani herdsmen. This Fulani and farmers clash has
been happening in the north central and we thought it is a northern
problem,” he said.
“Now, they have moved to the south to
trouble our peace loving people. They kidnapped Chief Olu Falae in
Yoruba land, they are now invading Igbo land, yet the Federal Government
is not doing anything to protect our people.”
Moreover, the Movement for the
Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have already issued a warning, urging
the Federal Government to intervene and stop the Fulani herdsmen from
further killings in the south east.
Some leaders of the two liberation
struggle groups disclosed that both MASSOB and IPOB may recourse to arms
struggle to protect Igbo land if the invasion and killings by the
Fulani herdsmen continue.
Furthermore, The Niger Delta militants
are also gearing up for confrontation with the herdsmen should they
extend their attack of communities to the south-south. Some of the
militant’s leaders who spoke to this reporter warned “the Fulani
herdsmen to stay off Niger Delta territory or face war.”
The militants vowed that they are on red alert in the zone.
It was reported that about 30 people
were killed by Fulani herdsmen during an attack on Ukpabi Nimbo, an
agrarian community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Enugu State,
penultimate week.
Several armed Fulani herdsmen, said to
be over 100, were alleged to have invaded the community in the early
hours of the day.Continuous gunshots were said to have woken the people
who became helpless and defenceless during the sudden attack and had to
flee their homes,Many of the villagers were gathered to have escaped to
neighbouring communities in the Uzo-Uwani area,Corpses were said to be
picked from farmlands and deposited at the morgue in Bishop Shanahan
Hospital, Nsukka, Enugu State.
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