A group known as Igbo National Council, INC, has claimed to have chased out herdsmen out of three communities in Imo State.
INC and Operation Lion Walk, a security outfit serving as a local vigilante group were able to secure Agbala, Owerri North Local Government Area; Obinze, Owerri West Council Area and Umuehie, Ehime Mbano Council Area from the destruction of the Fulani herdsmen.
Speaking to newsmen on Monday in Owerri, the National President of INC, Chilos Godsent, said he was happy with the level of compliance and acceptability the security outfit has enjoyed in various communities in Imo, stressing that traditional rulers of communities were the brain behind the success of the outfit.
Godsent said in Agbala all the youths from the community came out in their numbers to join the outfit in combing the forest where some of the armed jihadist killer herdsmen occupied to chase them away.
This he said was in adherence to the directives of the Igbo National Council worldwide through operation Ije Agu which was launched in June.
“Agwa in Oguta, Emii communities in Owerri North, Umuehie in Nsu, Ehime Mbano, Obinze in Owerri West and many others have been helping to comb and chase out these killer herdsmen in their forests,” He concluded.
Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News
