The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, INTERSOCIETY, on Wednesday, revealed that no fewer than 350 communities in Igboland have been forcefully invaded and permanent camps erected by herdsmen, with Enugu State having the highest number of such invasions.

This is even as South-East governors and the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, have finally agreed on a template for the implementation of community policing in the zone after the governors had accused the police boss of breaching an earlier agreement reached on the matter.

The Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum and Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Umahi, after a teleconference held with IGP on Wednesday, said they had agreed on modalities to implement the policy and that there was no longer disagreement between the governors, other leaders of the zone and Adamu.

He stated that after the meeting, Adamu agreed that the various security apparatus at the local communities should be deployed in the areas to safeguard lives and property.

Umahi noted that part of the agreement reached at the meeting was the training of community members by the police, while those trained would carry out the community policing in the different states of the zone.

He added that an advisory committee, to be set up in each area to supervise the operations, would be headed by the traditional ruler of the community with other selected stakeholders as members.

“This is at the community level and this is well accepted by the governors of South-east and other leaders of the zone,” the governor said.

Umahi explained that IGP also agreed that state Commissioners of Police in the zone made a mistake by making the selection, adding that anyone that had gone ahead to do the selection process made a mistake.

He said it was left for the governors and stakeholders to select those that would form members of the community police.

“Since the last hours today, we have been having meetings with the Inspector-General of Police Adamu, and the five governors of South-east attended with the President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, in attendance. Others in attendance were the leaders of South-east, including Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Chief Jim Nwobodo, and traditional rulers.

“The meeting centred on the communiqué we issued after our Sunday meeting of governors and leaders of South-east at Enugu.

“We, the governors of South-east, and our leaders, were the first to accept community policing because of the beautiful ingredients of community policing.

“IG explained to us when we had the meeting at Enugu and we saw that the idea in the policy will assist us. So, when the CPs made a mistake by going to do the composition by themselves and asked the governors to inaugurate, we felt that something was wrong somewhere and we had to contact IG.

“At the local government level, we agreed that there will be a local government advisory committee to be headed by the local government chairman at each local government area. The DPOs (Divisional Police Officers) and other security agencies, the traditional rulers of that local government, and other stakeholders will be the members at that local government level.

“At the state level, you have the governor and the security chiefs, the chairman of traditional rulers’ council, and some selected stakeholders and interest groups.

“This is what we have agreed and we agreed that the South-east will implement theirs and inaugurate in their various states. When next we meet at Enugu, we will harmonise our views in line with these agreements we reached,” the Ebonyi Governor said.

He further disclosed that part of the agreement was for each state to pass a law, called South-east Security Law, among other things, based on the guidelines, which would give the legal backing to community policing in the zone.

In the main, figures on the invasion of Igbo communities were contained in a statement endorsed by INTERSOCIETY’s board chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi; Head, International Justice and Human Rights, Ndidiamaka Bernard, and three others.

The statement read: “There are not less than 350 Igbo communities, villages and other locations now invaded and permanently occupied by the herdsmen and ‘imported’ Shuwa Arabs also called ‘cowmen’ in Arabic.

“The number of Igbo communities forcibly occupied by the jihadists has recorded exponential increase from about 139 in August 2019 to alarming 350 in May 2020.

“By the combined accounts of the Association of the Eastern Town Unions, the Alaigbo Development Foundation and the Eastern Outlook newspaper, “as at August 2019, 139 Igbo communities, villages and locations have been occupied by herdsmen, out of which Enugu State has the highest number with 56, followed by Anambra with 24, Imo 17, Ebonyi 12 and Abia seven.

“In Igbo areas of Delta and Rivers, there are 15 in Delta and nine in Rivers.

“But in our recent detailed review and update, the number has exponentially increased from 139 in August 2019 to not less than 350 in May 2020, out of which 318 were factually located and presented below while 38 others were added as ‘dark figures’ or ‘factually existing but not captured figures’.”

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Lala, Mynd44

I hope ur thinking what am thinking.

well before u start thinking, I think the south east governor's are weaklings.

Fake news

No wonder ??

Yorubas should ignore this thread, its between Fulani Masters and their Igbo Slaves.

Master and slave tinz. Moya look away

350

Wetin con remain

Nah to invade Nnsuka loku

Chineke meee! 350 camps?!?!! Igboland is under siege. If only Nnmadi Kanu (R.I.P) were alive, he would have summoned the Biafra special forces to uproot the camps. Odiegwu ooo.

Twistaray:



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You are wrong,if you call Fulani herdsmen jihadist,thou there are criminal element amongst them but good number of them rear their cows peacefully
South east government are way too dull,what they should put in place is what fayose did in ekiti but they are just asslicking pmb,that's why it would have been better if IPOB was strong in Igbo land targeting their governors not fg

See as our people just dodge this thread.


Lol.

Their house is burning, but they are busy pouring petrol on their neighbors house.

Anywhere in the east, to the figure of( 350) you see Hausa/ Fulani going about their legitimate business transaction in a settlement has automatically turned to Jihadist invasion. I wonder how do you people sleep with all these deceit and propaganda

This one no fit happen for anambra dey for don dey fight by now .
Anambra communities and land dragging like 5 and 6

SIONKPO1:

You are wrong,if you call Fulani herdsmen jihadist,thou there are criminal element amongst them but good number of them rear their cows peacefully
South east government are way too dull,what they should put in place is what fayose did in ekiti but they are just asslicking pmb,that's why it would have been better if IPOB was strong in Igbo land targeting their governors not fg

You are contradicting yourself.

Twistaray:


You are contradicting yourself.

You think so,how?

350 communities!? How many come remain?

Fake news as they come

SIONKPO1:

You think so, how?

If there is no cause for alarm or that level of insecurity there wouldn't be any need or call for regional security outfit. The police or the usual vigilante would-be considered.

They install judges in Osu land asap

Them go blame afonja now

Twistaray:


If there is no cause for alarm or that level of insecurity there wouldn't be any need or call for regional security outfit. The police or the usual vigilante would-be considered.

Yeah,an average herdsman is very very aggressive, but that doesn't mean that they are all Jihadist

SIONKPO1:
Fake news

What made it fake now. We have problems in our land and u are saying it's fake.our governors are weaklings.

lastempero:


What made it fake now. We have problems in our land and u are saying it's fake.our governors are weaklings.

350/communities?
Who counted them
The landmass of igboland is not that large and are consistently used for farming ,does that mean that herdsmen drove away the indegent owners?

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SIONKPO1:

350/communities?
Who counted them
The landmass of igboland is not that large and are consistently used for farming ,does that mean that herdsmen drove away the indegent owners?

Enugu alone can account for 100 of those communities, it should be more than.these people are everywhere.

lastempero:


Enugu alone can account for 100 of those communities, it should be more than.these people are everywhere.

What Stopped south eastern government from an anti open grazing law,and having a well equipped and well paid forest rangers? If truly there are herdsmen that are always armed

Armaggedon:
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You are better than this