OBI ATTRIBUTES STAMPEDE TRAGEDIES IN OYO, FCT, AND ANAMBRA TO HUNGER AND SYSTEMIC ISSUES. (PHOTO).

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 Peter Obi has blamed hunger and systemic failures for the recent spate of stampedes across the country.  Scores of persons were dead, and many others wounded in the tragic incidents in Ibadan, Oyo State; Okija in Anambra and another one in the nation’s capital of Abuja. The stampedes happened in a space of five days with the last two occurring on Saturday morning during food distribution campaigns. Obi, who was the Labour Party (LP)’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, said the incidents underline the rising hunger in the country which has led to desperation. “I am deeply saddened and distressed by the tragic loss of lives in desperate searches for food,” Obi, who is a former governor of Anambra State, wrote in a post on his X account Saturday afternoon. “While I will not cast blame but instead appreciate the organizers of these respective events for their kind gestures in providing palliatives and support to society, especially the poor, these tragedies reflect the...
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GROUP RAISES ALARM OVER OPEN GRAZING, ORDERS HERDERS TO VACATE IMO COMMUNITY.(PHOTO).

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Group raises alarm over open grazing, orders herders to vacate Imo community

25th Jun 2023 

An Igbo youth group, Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL), says it has uncovered illegal grazing of cattle in farmlands in Imo communities which have caused hardship among farmers.

The group said no form of open grazing would be allowed in the entire Igboland, while calling for the arrest of some herdsmen who, they said, carry automatic rifles about in the course of grazing their cattle.

A statement by the President-General of the group, Mr Goodluck Ibem, alerted the Department of State Services (DSS) to move without delay and arrest the marauding herdsmen.

The group said: “The unlawful occupation and destruction of farmlands in Obosa Assa Community in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State by Fulani herdsmen with their cattle has brought great famine on the people as their crops have been eaten up by the cows.

“The cattle and their headers have also sent indigenes of the community packing from their ancestral homes and community.

“The issue of open grazing has been banned a long time ago, and anyone or group of persons still involved in such outdated practice is on a wicked mission of taking the ancestral lands of the community they are staying.”

The group said there was a bigger agenda than just cattle grazing, which is only a smokescreen, saying that this was more so as the Fulani herdsmen in the community parade with AK-47 rifles and other dangerous weapons.

“We demand that the Department of State Services (DSS) should immediately arrest these terrorists with AK47 riffles parading as Fulani herdsmen in Obosa Assa community, and we demand for payment of damages for crops and farmlands destroyed by those cows.

“We give those terrorists parading as Fulani herdsmen 48 hours to vacate the community immediately and never try or think to come back,” the statement read.

 

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