Don't Set Our Region On Fire

THE National Association of Nigeria (NANS) has called on Sunday Adeyemo, aslo known as Sunday Igboho, to employ dialogue and consultations with relevant stakeholders to find lasting solutions to the activities of herdsmen in the South West.

Addressing journalists, yesterday, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, NANS Chairman/Ogun Joint Campus Committee, Kehinde Simeon, urged Adeyemo to liaise with the appropriate authorities to find a solution to the crisis and not “to set the entire South West on fire and cause anarchy.”

Simeon also called on the state government to consider the registration of herdsmen within the borders of Ogun State, ban open grazing and fast track the inauguration of Amotekun corps to further combat insecurity around schools in the state.

“We understand Igboho, but it is our view that he should meet with Yoruba leaders, Afenifere and other stakeholders. This has become important so as not to set the entire South West on fire and cause anarchy.

“We observe that Igboho’s strategy, if not reviewed, may lead to ethnic or tribal war. We, therefore, urge him to liaise with the appropriate authorities to avoid a major disaster,” he said.

The NANS chairman also called on the state government to increase allocation to education sector and subventions to the institutions to avoid overburdened charges on students.

Robber met waterloo at Aba

A member of a four-man robbery gang whose name could not be  ascertained, met his waterloo in the early hours of yesterday while on robbery expedition. He was macheted to death while attempting to rape their victim’s wife.

According to Daily Sun as narrated by a resident who spoke on the condition of anonymity said: “Some robbers attacked  a family in the early hours of today (yesterday) but one of them  in an attempt to rape their victims wife was matcheted by the husband. Other gang members fled”. 

It was gathered that the gang had gone to a compound along the Ukwu Akpu/Umule axis of Aba, Abia State to rob the residents. After successfully  carrying out the robbery operation  they were about leaving when  one of them who felt he had not had enough against the advice of his gang members, decided to rape their victim’s wife.

As the randy robber forced the woman to lie down before his husband and children, hardly had he removed his clothes to have his way, when the woman’s  husband who could not stand the shame of another man using his wife in his presence and that of their children, immediately, reached for his machete and gave the hoodlum a deep cut on his waist region.

Other members of the gang who were outside the house when the incident occurred took to their heels  flee when their member started shouting  for help after receiving the machete cut. Although the robber did not die immediately, but residents carried and dumped him on the adjoining street where he died of excruciating pains.

IPOB To Enforce Ban On Open Grazing In South East

In a statement  by leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, through the group’s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, the group claimed that Nigeria security may not be able to enforce the South East governors ban, hence they have volunteered themselves to do the job.

Kanu also urged the people to join him live on Radio Biafra and other social media platforms  to listen to how the enforcement would be carried out.

“We, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, ably led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to salute the courage of South East Governors for heeding our leader’s call to ban open grazing in the region. We received with delight the news of a statement credited to the Chairman of South East Governors’ Forum, Dave Umahi, to the effect that open grazing has been banned in all states of the zone. IPOB wishes to acknowledge the wisdom of the governors to respect the people’s will for the first time. 

“Now that South East Governors Forum have stated publicly and for the records  that they are in support of flushing out killer-herdsmen, cultists, kidnappers and bandits from the various forests in the region and have courageously re-affirmed that they have banned open grazing of cattle essentially by foot, it is now the duty of ESN to enforce it, otherwise why make a law if you can’t enforce it.

“As we unveil how this law will be rigorously enforced by ESN because unbeknown to Nigerians,  Police Force as presently constituted cannot enforce state laws. Now you know why the Sharia states of the core Arewa North formed their own little Islamic Hisbah police, in a supposedly secular country, to enforce such Islamic laws as the prohibition of sale and consumption of alcohol in their domain. This law has led to the illegal destruction of goods and properties worth billions of naira and imprisonment of businessmen and women of Biafran extraction in Arewa core north,” Kanu alleged.