A herdsman has been arrested with an AK-47 assault rifle and 24 rounds of stay ammunition in Enugu.
The Police Public members of the family Officer, Enugu nation Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who introduced the arrest on Tuesday, recognized the herdsman as Ibrahim Adamumale.
Adamumale, stated to be about 20 years old, is from Nasarawa nation.
He resides at Hausa Quarters in the 9th Mile place of Enugu, however rears cattle in groups within the Udi nearby authorities vicinity and environs.
It turned into gathered that Adamumale became apprehended in a bush in Affa community, within the Udi vicinity on August 29.
Amaraizu defined that the herdsman was in ownership of the “state-of-the-art” weapon and ammunition when he turned into accosted by using policemen and some members of the community.
He discovered that contributors of the community had earlier knowledgeable protection agents approximately the herdsman’s violent activities in the region.
Amaraizu said Adamumale fired several shots into the air in an try to evade arrest, declaring that the shootings did now not deter the policemen, who sooner or later apprehended and took him into custody.
The police spokesman, who said that the suspect turned into being interrogated, introduced that the police had been investigating how the herdsman received the weapon.
The development came at the heels of a latest herdsmen’s attack on Attakwu, a network inside the Nkanu West neighborhood government location of Enugu state.
Herdsmen reportedly launched the attack after a woman chased away herds of cattle that had been destroying crops in her farm.
A Catholic seminarian, Lazarus Nwafor, turned into killed at the same time as 4 others sustained extreme injuries in the incident.
One of the injured, a middle-elderly lady, later died in a clinic wherein she turned into receiving treatment.
The assault on Attakwu got here precisely 4 months after herdsmen invaded Ukpabi Nimbo, any other Enugu community, wherein approximately 20 persons were killed on April 25.
Meanwhile, the people of Attakwu community have joined other groups in Enugu to demand the expulsion of herdsmen from their territories.
The humans of Attakwu stated this whilst the lawmaker representing Nkanu East/Nkanu West in the house of Representatives, Mr. Chukwuemeka Ujam, visited the community to commiserate with them over the herdsmen’s attack.
Network leaders and teenagers, who spoke throughout the lawmaker’s visit, advised the Enugu state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to emulate his Ekiti nation counterpart, Ayo Fayose, with the aid of enacting an anti-grazing law within the nation.
Ujam had, throughout the go to, echoed Ugwuanyi’s call on individuals of the community to preserve calm and keep away from taking the law into their hands.
But the villagers did not welcome the admonition, and threatened to embark on reprisals if the herdsmen had been no longer ordered to go away the community.
Ujam had, whilst commiserating with members of the community, called on the safety agencies and the authorities to cope with the threat posed by herdsmen in Enugu state.
The lawmaker said, “i'm mainly pained due to the fact we had been hearing of this in numerous parts of the united states of america but it has end up consistent in Enugu state.
“It changed into an unprovoked assault. Farm animals came into a farm and the livestock were chased away. Does that warrant an assault
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