South Eastern Senate Members angry over Fulani attacks in Enugu state- call for immediate summit.

South Eastern Senate Members angry over Fulani attacks in Enugu state- call for immediate summit.

The South East Senate members warned against what it described as impending danger and possible attack on the unity of Nigeria if the Federal Government fails to quickly look into the Enugu massacres.

At an emergency meeting in Abuja yesterday, the Senators condemned the attack, which claimed the lives of over 50 persons and drove others 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 urgently.

In a statement by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, of Abia South after the meeting, the emergency summit was put in place to discuss and evaluate the situation and attempt a solution to ensure the safety of lives and properties of their people.

According to the Senate members, the summit was called for due to the silence and apparent indifference of the presidency over the killings in Enugu, some areas in Delta state and many other zones in recent time even when there were 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.”