Standup9ja: Herdsmen Invade Rivers Community, Threaten
Women, Farmers With Guns, Arrows
ETCHE—WOMEN of Igbo-Etche Kingdom, Etche Local Government
Area, Rivers State, have protested the siege to their farmlands and willful
destruction of their crops by suspected Fulani herdsmen, who point guns and
arrows, threatening to kill them, if they dared to raise the alarm over their
criminality.
The angry women, led by Mrs. Nkechinyere Nwosu, wife of the
paramount ruler, Ekwu I of Umuekwune-Ohoro, Igbo-Etche kingdom, Eze Innocent
Nwosu, stormed the palace of the monarch, to seek his intervention in the havoc
being perpetrated by the herdsmen.
Tension: They said they were worried by activities of
herdsmen in the area, calling on the state governor, Nyesom Wike, and security
agencies in the state to quickly come to their rescue before it escalates to
the rampaging herdsmen raping women, maiming and butchering villagers.
Delta Women protest rape by herdsmen
Speaking, the monarch’s wife urged the Eze to tell the
governor that the women want government to stop the herdsmen from entering
their farm lands with immediate effect.
Hunger: She complained that they face series of humiliation
in the hands of the herdsmen, adding that destruction of their crops by cattle
was causing also hunger in the homes.
Appeal to Wike: Her words: ”We want His Excellency, the
governor of Rivers State to come and help us over these herdsmen and their
cattle, they are destroying our farmlands. They use to come with guns and
arrows, when we talk, they will point guns and arrows at us and that is why we
do not complain because we do not want to die.”
Monarch demands urgent attention
Addressing the women, the paramount ruler of Umuekwune and
Ohoro, Eze Nwosu, said: “We are peace loving people and we do not want to
engage anyone in war, that is why we are calling on the governor to give urgent
attention to the cry of Igbo-Etche people about the herdsmen. If herdsmen
destroy our crops, what do they expect us to feed on?
Commending Governor Wike for some developmental projects
sited in the area, the royal father urged him to pay urgent attention to the
plight of the Igbo-Etche people, who he said were predominantly farmers.
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