By Adadareporters
The Enugu State Police Command has deployed a tactical and intelligence team to hunt down suspected cattle herders that killed four persons at Ugwuijero village, Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State in the early morning of April 28, 2024.
The state commissioner of police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, stated this when he accompanied Gov Peter Mbah to the scene of the incident. He described the act as “senseless and unwarranted”, and ordered the deployment of a police tactical and intelligence team to bring the perpetrators to book.
He assured that the operations would use everything at the disposal of the police to bring the perpetrators to book.
He commiserated with the immediate families of the victims, citizens of the Ugwuijero, and the entire Nimbo community over the unfortunate incident, noting that the command would never allow incidents “of this nature to persist anywhere in the state”.
CP Uzoegbu urged people of the community and the entire citizenry to “remain supportive, especially as the police deploy community-policing-enabled kinetic and non-kinetic means to frontally tackle this manner of inconceivable violent crimes”.
Meanwhile, members of the community and the public with useful information or intelligence that will assist the police in the ongoing operations have been called upon to provide the same through 08098880172 or 08086671202.
Our correspondent reports that the victims, with some injured, had gathered to mourn the dead when they were attacked. Some of the casualties, according to reports, are Okeh Simon Ugwu Oruku, Okeh Chukwuebuka, Julius Ogbonna Odiegwu and Gabriel Ugwor Ezea.
Recall that in 2016, Fulani herders invaded Nimbo community, and killed many and burnt houses.
Gov Peter Mbah had during the visit
described the attack as
“unacceptable to his administration”, declaring that “enough is enough”.
According to him, the attack is a collective tragedy to the entire state, and assured that the government would work with community and security stakeholders to strengthen security not only in Nimbo, but also the entire Uzo Uwani LGA.
He said: “Let me assure you that enough is enough. I don’t think that we would allow our hospitality to be taken for granted. We expect people, who have come to mingle with us, to also play by the rules and laws of our land.
“I don’t think that we really do have any reason to exist as government if we cannot guarantee the safety of our people because the primary purpose of government is to guarantee the security and the welfare of its citizens. So, a situation where our people would go to bed with their two eyes open must end. And it must end immediately.
“I want to assure you that we are going to deploy everything within our powers; and I mean everything: the law, the forces, everything that is necessary in order for us to guarantee your security.
“We are truly pained by such dastardly killing by people who trespass, come into the locality of our people, who are living quietly within their environment, and open fire on them. That is inexcusable and unacceptable, and we are going to identify, track these culprits, pursue them wherever they are, capture them, and ensure that we bring them to justice.”
Governor Mbah earlier visited and condoled each of the bereaved families, and promised to work on their recommendations and requests for representation in government and strengthening of their local security resources.
