Igbo Women Urge Tinubu: Tame Herdsmen, Let Farmers Return Safely

• Igbo women, under the Igbo Women Assembly (IWA), called for disarming violent herdsmen in the South East due to attacks on farmers.

• The IWA criticized military checkpoints for stifling the region’s economy and driving away youths.

• IWA National President, Lolo Nneka Chimezie, urged President Tinubu to address the unprovoked attacks by herders and emphasized no cases of cattle rustling in the South East.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Igbo women have called for the disarming of violent herdsmen wreaking havoc in various agrarian communities in the South East. They lamented that farmers are now scared of going to their farms due to incessant attacks and criminal activities by herders.

Under the umbrella of the Igbo Women Assembly (IWA), the women shared their grievances at a press conference in Umuahia, Abia State, over the weekend.

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They called for the dismantling of multiple military checkpoints across the South East, claiming these are stifling the zone’s economy and driving away youths who allegedly suffer humiliation and molestation at some checkpoints.

IWA National President, Lolo Nneka Chimezie, urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to quickly come to the rescue of Igbo rural dwellers, mostly farmers, who no longer go to their farms due to incessant, unprovoked attacks by criminal herders.

Lolo Nneka, flanked by other women, regretted that no arrests had been made after the recent barbaric slaughter of farmers, including two brothers in Enugu State, by suspected herders.

The IWA President argued that since there is no case of cattle rustling in the South East, no herder in the zone should be allowed to bear weapons. She said that “the excuse by the former President that he permitted herdsmen to bear arms because of cattle rustlers” is weak and should not apply in the South East, as there has not been any incident of cattle rustling in the zone.

The women lamented that despite killings and maiming of innocent citizens by murderous herders, security agencies are yet to frontally engage the perpetrators.

They urged South East Governors to enact and strictly enforce anti-grazing laws to help checkmate the activities of herdsmen in the zone.

”Igbo people are all over the country doing their businesses. We buy our shops and build them. The same way, cattle rearing is a big business. Herdsmen should be made to buy lands for ranches and stop using their cows to inflict sorrows and economic pains on us.

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”You cannot use your cow to destroy my crops and later sell it to me. It doesn’t make sense,” they added.

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