“Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi Governor of Enugu state said he put a call across to the president, he was put on hold for over an hour
This call was made in the presence of 13 men and 4 women, the president’s aide told the Governor that the president will get back to him.
The president through his aide after 4 hrs told the governor that the president will do something about it.
My relative was among the people who witnessed this call ( Sly Idoko).
Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on hearing that the police have not arrived at Uzouwani called GOC 82 division for help. He was referred to the presidency again.
This time around, he was put on hold for nearly 2hrs again, while waiting to speak to the president, news came in that the attack he was planning to prevent has actually taken place.
Within an hour, the commissioner and GOC who referred the Governor to the president has mobilised their men to stop retaliation”
– Amanda Kirby Okoye
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Tragedy struck in the sleepy Ukpabi Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani council of Enugu state on Monday as rampaging Fulani herdsmen attacked the area killing scores of residents, mostly farmers, and destroyed property worth millions of naira.
Sources in the area put the casualty figure at 48, though the police is yet to give a definite figure.
Sixty persons reportedly sustained varying degrees of injuries while tens of residential buildings were equally torched, according to sources in the area.
Eyewitness accounts had it that the herdsmen in their numbers invaded the community in the early hours of Monday with guns, bows and arrows, machetes and swords and ensured that any human being within sight was hacked down.
But for the arrival of a combined team of police and military personnel led by the Police Commissioner in the state, Nwodibo Ekechukwu, in the community, the situation would have degenerated and perhaps gone out of hand as they made efforts to repel the attack.