banning herdsmen without cattle and moving cattle by truck to their markets in the East will “eliminate increasing cases of killing, maiming, raping of our women, kidnapping of our people, and destruction of our farmlands, mostly carried out by foreign herdsmen and in most cases with the backing of compromised local herders”

South East Governors Forum

South East Governors have again written to President Muhammadu Buhari to ban herdsmen without cattle from coming to the South East.

They also requested the president to order that no cattle should be brought into the South East on foot, but rather transported with trucks only to the places where they are sold.

These reminders were contained in a letter from the South East Governor’s Forum sent to President Buhari yesterday 19 August 2019, where they pleaded for extension of time announced for closure of Enugu Airport for repairs.

According to the Governors, banning herdsmen without cattle and moving cattle by truck to their markets in the East will “eliminate increasing cases of killing, maiming, raping of our women, kidnapping of our people, and destruction of our farmlands, mostly carried out by foreign herdsmen and in most cases with the backing of compromised local herders,” the governors said in their letter signed by the Forum Chair, Chief Dave Umahi who is Governor of Ebonyi State.

Perhaps drawing from the recent mobbing of former deputy president of the Senate, the Governors pleaded with the President to allow them to make their letter public so that citizens in the zone will no longer think that they are doing nothing regarding insecurity and economic challenges facing their Zone.

The governor told the President that there is need to show their people that “their leaders before now have been working very hard without making noise as issues of security must not be discussed in public.”

They used the opportunity to thank the president for “the consistent progress of work at the Second Niger Bridge and other federal government projects in the South East, especially the completion of the Zik Mausoleum in Onitsha and the 2.8 MW solar power plant at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University at  Ndufu Alike in Ebonyi State.”

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