Herdmen Killings: It’s Wrong To Call Fulanis Killers – Okorocha

File Photo: Rochas Okorocha

The Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, said yesterday that it is wrong for anybody to attribute the killings perpetrated by herdsmen in the country to the Fulanis.

According to a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha made the statement when members of Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim led by its Supreme Head, the Prelate His Eminence Solomon Alao, visited him at the Government House, Owerri.

The governor stated that it was totally wrong to associate the Fulanis with the killer herdsmen, adding that the marauding herdsmen should be treated as criminals, and should not be used to stigmatise the Fulanis, whose men and women had largely contributed to nation-building.

“The fact remains that no one in this country has the right to take another person’s life in whatever disguise. For herdsmen to kill anybody is not right and that must be condemned,” he said.

Speaking on the proposed creation of cattle colony by the Federal Government, the governor said that there was a cattle market in the state and not a cattle colony, stating that the state government encouraged indigenes to go into cattle business because it was lucrative and that government would continue to support them with provision of ranches.