Enugu women in serious protest against herdsmen attacks

says security agencies are acting complacent

Reports say that some Enugu women on Tuesday, protested the incessant attacks by suspected Fulani Herdsmen.

The protesting women were women from Eha-Ohala, comprising Mgbuji, Umujove, and Abor autonomous communities in the Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Punchng.com reported that the protesters blocked the Nkalagu-Eha-Amufu-Ikem-Obollo-Afor Federal Highway, carrying green leaves and singing lamentation songs to draw attention to their plight.

They accused security agencies of failing to protect them while the attackers continued their attacking spree, and also continued to destroy their farms and settlements.

They shared harrowing accounts of women being raped, beaten, and mutilated by Fulani herdsmen.

They women lamented that their women were being raped, their husbands and sons for fear of being brutalized or killed, cannot go to farm anymore.

One of the protesters, Mrs Roseline Odoh, stated that the community can no longer access their farms due to the constant attacks.

Odoh said as farmers whose only means to survive was farming, it has been a tough time fending for themselves.

According to her, every year, during harvest, Fulani herdsmen come to occupy their farms, destroying their livelihood.

Odoh was quoted to have said, “The worst is that they have sacked us from our farm settlements. So many of us don’t have anywhere to go.

“Our houses have been burnt down and the invaders occupy it.

“So many of our people – children, youths and our husbands have been killed.

“In each of these cases, the government and security agencies will deny that our people were not attacked and killed. The reason for doing so, we don’t know.

“If they send soldiers and police here, they will only patrol the town. They don’t go to where these criminals are occupying,” she lamented, adding, “It is high time the Fulani herdsmen attacks stopped.”

She added that their people don’t have boundaries with Fulani herdsmen.

Therefore it did not make sense to them how the government is dealing with the issue with kid gloves.

According to the protesters, over 150 people from the affected communities have been killed between 2020 and 2025, while more than 28 farm settlements have been sacked and occupied by the attackers.

According to punchng.com, attempts to get a response from the Enugu State Police Command and Governor Peter Mbah’s media office were unsuccessful, as neither of them responded to inquiries as of press time.

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