Security
EVEN as several people were reportedly killed in a terrorist attack at Awgu Junction, near the Federal College of Education, Enugu State, the governor of Enugu state Mr. Peter Mbah and the Governors of South East states in the Country, have once again been called upon by the HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) to enforce the law against the incursions of Fulani terrorists into the Igbo states.
Media report averred that hundreds of residents gathered along the federal highway following the attack as tension spread across the area in Enugu State. In the light of this emerging reality, the prominent Pro-democracy and civil rights advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned the persistent bloody violence against Igbos by Fulani terrorists just as the Rights group said the continuous attacks on the residents of the South East Region is provocative, despicable, reprehensible and absolutely intolerable.
HURIWA asserted that whilst the media is inundated by propaganda news releases from the South East states that the states were confronting the menace of the infiltration into the forests reserves of the South East of Nigeria by Fulani terrorists, the Enugu State governor recently informed Nigeria that the government has established armed forest guards.
The Rights group HURIWA stated that the fact that Fulani terrorists and other criminal elements such as kidnappers and mass killers disguised as separatists militia have consistently killed residents of the South East states and especially communities in Enugu, Imo and Anambra States, demonstrates that the claims of the South East governors about providing measures to curb insecurity are at best a fraud and mere phantom claims.
HURIWA therefore called on the Igbo states governors to collectively tackle and confront insecurity and especially the genre that involves the massive incursions of heartlands and forests of Igbo states by armed Fulani herdsmen just as the Rights group accused the South East governors of turning their various states armed vigilantes into political thugs who are deployed against political opponents instead of making sure that these trained armed vigilantes are deployed to flush out the large numbers of armed Fulani terrorists that have infiltrated forests in the South East of Nigeria.
HURIWA commended residents of the South East states for being the good hosts of law abiding citizens of Fulani and Hausa ethnicities who are engaged in legitimate businesses in the South East just as the Rights organisation wondered why the laws against the roaming of cows in the city centres and people’s farms are not being enforced in such places as Owerri in Imo State and most towns of Enugu state. “Why should the governors of the South East be concerned only about their reelection and the reelection of the incumbent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu but has failed to protect the lives and property of thd good peoples of the South East states experiencing the menace of Fulani terrorism.
“We call on the governors of the South East to borrow a leaf from the Abia state governor Mr. Alex Otti whose administration has done a lot of field work around the thematic area of providing effective and efficient security services that are beneficial ultimately to the residents of Abia state. The fact that there are almost no attacks in Abia state for three years now, shows that the model of security adopted by the administration of Governor Alex Otti is working which is why we are calling for this model to be replicated in the other South East states.”
A.I
June 1, 2026
Tags: Fulani terrorists Governor Alex Otti Mr. Peter Mbah