The community also sent the Save-Our-Soul message to the Abia State House of Assembly, saying they need urgent intervention in the crisis before it escalates to threaten the peace of the community and the state at large.
The community described the threat of the Hausa/Fulani herdsmen as “perennial, calculated and deliberate provocative activity meant to impoverish, maim and finally exterminate our people.”
They alleged that some Hausa/Fulani cattle rearers had late last month “attacked and nearly killed the Chairman of Akanu-Ukwu Ohafia Vigilante group, Chief Thomas Onuegbe Uka.”
Monday, hundreds of them stormed the Abia State Government House and the House of Assembly with placards and urged them to intervene by stopping the cattle rearers from further destroying their crops.
Some of the placards read, “stop destroying our land; our farming is our life; cattle frightening women in the farm; cattle graiziers killing farmers” among other while the women among them carried sticks of cassava to the protest.
In a protest letter presented to the Government and the House of Assembly, the community enumerated series of loses they have incurred in their farm on account of the activities of the herdsmen.
They therefore called on Governor Orji to wade into the matter and resolve it before the matter escalates if the people retaliate.
Addressing the protesters, the Deputy Governor of Abia state, Chief Emeka Ananaba who represented Governor Orji commended the Akanu Ohafia people for maintaining peace by not attacking the invaders.
According to him, the Government would look into their complaint and resolve it amicably even as he urged them to maintain peace.Addressing the people not to attack is a quiet complicated issues because the so called invaders are moving sufisticated weapon and are ready to do harm to any body,so we beg the government do something fast.
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