The immediate past governor of Abia State and senator representing Abia Central in the Senate, Senator Theodore Orji has condemned the attitude of some security agencies over the constant attacks by Fulani herdsmen on some indigenes.
Senator Orji said that in most cases when the issue of Fulani herdsmen attack on indigenes of areas where they graze their cattle, the security men show signs of partiality where they should be impartial.
Speaking with newsmen in Umuahia, Orji said that security men should know that they are being paid with tax payer’s money and have no need to be partial, adding that the job of security men is to protect life and property and not to be partial.
Orji wondered how people who are supposed to be cattle herdsmen would be carrying AK 47 automatic rifle and attack defenceless people, stressing that the senate is not resting on its oars to ensure that the problem is settled amicably.
The senator noted that the issue of Fulani herdsmen attacking their hosts over grazing ground is not peculiar to South East alone, as it has happened at Agatu in Benue state, “Even when I was governor of Abia we had the same problem over grazing land in Ohafia.”
He explained that as members of the senate that they do not have arms, police or army to pursue the matter, “What we have is the ability to make laws that handle the case and believe that law enforcement agencies will enforce the laws”.
The Senator said that the senate is on the verge of providing grazing ground for the cattle herdsmen so that peace will exist between the indigenes who are the hosts and the Fulani cattle men.
He said: “Once the grazing grounds are provided with all the amenities in such places, we are sure that the issue of clashes between indigenes and Fulani herdsmen will be a thing of the past.”
On the issue of Nnamdi Kanu, Orji said that the South East caucus in the national assembly are talking and handling the matter in a manner that it will be settled in an amicable way devoid of rancour and acrimony.
“The Nnamdi Kanu matter even as it in the court one should not talk about it, we in the national assembly from the South East are not keeping quiet, we are working to ensure that an amicable solution to it will be arrived at to ensure peace in the zone,” he added. (The Nation)
