SENATOR ENYI ABARIBE CALLS FOR SE/SS EMERGENCY SUMMIT

THE South East Senate Caucus yesterday warned
against what it termed imminent danger and
possible attack on the unity of Nigeria if the
Federal Government fails to urgently address the
Enugu massacres by the marauding Fulani
herdsmen.
Rising from an emergency meeting in Abuja
yesterday, the Senators not only condemned the
attack, which left over 50 persons dead and
scores driven out of their homes, they also
called for a summit of South East and South
South State Governors, members of National and
State Houses of Assembly, Socio-Cultural
associations, traditional rulers and major
stakeholders immediately.

In a statement by the Senator representing Abia
South senatorial district, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe,
after the meeting, the emergency summit was
put in place to review and evaluate the very
scary situation and profer a coordinated response
that would ensure the security of lives and
properties of their people.

According to the caucus, the summit became
imperative against the background of the
ominous silence and apparent indifference of the
presidency over the killings in Enugu, some areas
in Delta state and so many other zones in recent
time even when there was obvious intelligence
reports.
The statement read, “We can no longer sit and
watch while our people are daily slaughtered like
fowls without even attracting the cursory routine
condemnation by the Presidency.

“We are even more appalled that despite the
alarm raised by the Uzo Uwani Communities of
an imminent attack by the fulani herdsmen and
the associated vague assurances by the
Chairman of Fulani community in Enugu that
such attack will not happen, yet the security
agencies failed to prevent the attack that
happened two days after the alarm.

“It is disheartening what is happening and
somebody has to take responsibility. That
somebody has to be the institution of the
Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”