By Jenarius Ezeru, Abia
A socio-political and cultural organization on the platform of the Igbo Improvement Union has called on the Nigerian Army to urgently set up a probe panel to unravel the identity of the soldiers who invaded Ugwuleshi community in Enugu State.
In a communiqué issued and signed by its Chairman, Ugochukwu Agballah, and the National Secretary, Chief Edozie Njoku, after its conference at Benac Hotel Umuahia, noted with dismay the silence of the authorities of Nigerian government over the issue and called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to prosecute the Fulani herdsmen and soldiers involved in the killing.
The group noted also the effects of indiscriminate grazing by Fulani herdsmen on the eroded soil of Igbo land due to land excavators and erosion menace and appealed to the federal government to excise Igbo land from the proposed national grazing route /ranch, stressing that “our vulnerable land can no longer sustain the disastrous effects of Fulani herdsmen overgrazing on our ecology’’.
It called for the Ndigbo to concentrate more on communal and self-help efforts in economic and human resources advancement.
It was however gathered that representatives of Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi, Delta and Rivers states were at the conference.
