Town Unions in the South East geo-political zone of the country, operating under the aegis of Association of South East Town Unions (ASETU), have called on the federal government to find it expedient to take steps to assist the Enugu State Government in compensating the affected families of the recent attack on Nimbo community by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
The unions which expressed their position through a statement jointly signed by the zonal chairman and secretary of the association, Chief Emeka Diwe and Barr. Paully Eze, respectively, commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for “the maturity he exhibited in handling the attack which was capable of trigging off national crisis”.
The unions condemned in its entirety the Nimbo attack and other “unwarranted rampant killings, kidnapping, raping and wanton destruction of farm crops in the North Central and Southern parts of Nigeria” by the suspected herdsmen.
While commiserating with the Enugu State Government and families of those who lost their lives in the carnage, the unions warned that they will “no longer tolerate further attacks on our people by these terrorists who disguise themselves as herdsmen”.
They argued that the land mass in the northern parts of Nigeria is enough to accommodate the herdsmen, stressing that the federal government should build grazing reserves in the north and resettle the cattle rearers in those reserved areas.
