By Ogbonna Casmir
Member representing Awgu North Constituency at the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon. Sunday Ude-Okoye, has cried out to well-meaning Nigerians to come to save people of Enugu state from Fulani herdsmen in systemic plan to wipe them out.
He said since security agencies that should protects the people only side the herdsmen whenever they attacked host communities, “we have no option than to beckons Nigerians to help us”.
Ude-Okoye who made the plea on the floor of the House yesterday, was reacting to recent attack carried out on Attakwu-Akegbe, Nkanu West Local Government of the state at which a seminarian and a woman were murdered and three others serious injured.
The lawmaker who cast his mind back to the mayhem carried out on Ukpabi-Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state, lamented that the herdsmen have threatened to attack another community, Aku in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area.
Afraid that if nothing is done and urgently, too, the state is under threat of extinction and pleaded with Nigerians to “come and help us.”
“I wish to condemn an act that has been going on by the Fulanis. I wish to stand here to condemn it. Let other Nigerians help us since the Nigerian Police cannot protect us but rather to protect the Fulanis.
“There is no reason why they, the Fulani herdsmen, should come to our place to kill us,” he laments and opined that God would hear the cry of Enugu people some day.
Ude-Okoye who was sore displeased what the Fulani herdsmen have been doing in the state in recent time – raping women, destroying farmlands, kidnapping and armed robbery among other things, called on all and sundry to come and help the helpless Enugu State before a more heinous act would be carried out.
Speaker of the House, Hon. Edward Uchenna Ubosi, who welcomed members to the House after over a month recess, presented to the House the new Clerk of the House, Barr. Dr. Emmanuel Udeagha who replaced the former Clerk, Mr. Christopher Chukwurah.
Ubosi thanked the Acting Clerk, Nebo who held forte after the retirement of Chukwurah for the able way he performed.
The speaker promised to put smiles on the staff of the assembly in appreciation for how they have been a help to smooth working of the Assembly.
