No fewer than 15 communities in Orumba-South Local
Government of Anambra State on Tuesday raised the alarm over the menace of
herdsmen in their area.
They alleged that herdsmen were raping their wives and
children.
The spokesperson for the communities, Mr Chukwudi Ugochukwu,
stated this at Orumba-South Local Government Council secretariat in Umunze
during a stakeholders’ meeting of the people of the area.
He added that the herdsmen allowed their cows to graze on
farms, thereby destroying people’s livelihoods.
Ugochukwu said some women and girls had been raped on their
way to their farms.
He said no fewer than 20 of such cases had being recorded,
adding that he would not go beyond for fear of stigmatising the victims.
He said, “We live along the boundary with Imo State by
Arondizuogu. All the farmlands there have been devastated by the herdsmen. Some
of our women have been raped on the farmlands but they refused to talk so that
they will not be stigmatised. The entire Umunze is under threat.”
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