{"id":24072,"date":"2021-04-21T06:08:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T05:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=24072"},"modified":"2021-04-21T06:08:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T05:08:48","slug":"umahi-cautions-herders-says-they-should-stay-away-until-ebonyi-is-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/21\/umahi-cautions-herders-says-they-should-stay-away-until-ebonyi-is-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Umahi cautions herders, says they should stay away until Ebonyi is safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has requested herders to stay away from the state until &#8220;tension abates&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that there have been\u00a0attacks by gunmen on Ebonyi communities in the past few weeks, heightening tension between herders and their host communities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday in Abakaliki, the state capital, the governor said his administration did not ask herders to leave the state \u2014 but they did so on their own accord.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi, however, said the herders should not yet return to the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/15-suspects-arrested-for-killing-706-cows-75-sheeps-in-kaduna\/\">killing<\/a> policemen, we are burning police station which means that south-east leaders should know that our problem is not just herdsmen. We want to put it on record that no herdsman is in Ebonyi state now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t ask them to leave. They left on their own, which means they were privy to the attacks on Ebonyi state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been begging the national leadership that with what is going on, no state governor is in control of bandits and because of the killings of the defenceless Ebonyi people, for the safety of them, they should not return now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is high tension. We have sent text messages to Myetti Allah that Ebonyi state is under tension and we would not want them to still stay until such a time that the state is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also said he has ordered vigilantes and the leadership of the LGAs to enforce the ban on open grazing in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said although there is no herder presently in the state, the ban should be seriously enforced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe natives should not blame security agencies who cannot be everywhere as we will fully fund vigilante operations in the state,\u201d Umahi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividuals who make inciting statements on the social media should desist because such increases tension in the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged residents of the south-east to condemn the incessant attacks on police facilities and other security threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attacks are not perpetrated by herders but by criminals and bandits in the zone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would we feel if the federal government withdraws policemen from the zone as a result of this development?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people claiming to protect us are not doing so and we should avoid creating another monster in the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also ordered the arrest of people whose \u201cinciting utterances escalated the conflict and killings\u201d in Effium and Mgbo communities of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has requested herders to stay away from the state until &#8220;tension abates&#8221;. Recall that there have been\u00a0attacks by gunmen on Ebonyi communities in the past few weeks, heightening tension between herders and their host communities. Speaking on Tuesday in Abakaliki, the state capital, the governor said his administration did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":11153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4347,717,376,83,207],"class_list":["post-24072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-david-umahi","tag-ebonyi-state","tag-herders","tag-insecurity","tag-killings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Umahi cautions herders, says they should stay away until Ebonyi is safe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has requested herders to stay away from the state until &quot;tension abates&quot;.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/21\/umahi-cautions-herders-says-they-should-stay-away-until-ebonyi-is-safe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Umahi cautions herders, says they should stay away until Ebonyi is safe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has requested herders to stay away from the state until &quot;tension abates&quot;. 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