… Vows To Resist Any Attempt
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has vowed that it would never allow governors in the South-East region to allocate land to the herdsmen as advised by President Bola Tinubu.
SaharaReporters reports that Tinubu had urged the 36 state governors to provide grazing land for herdsmen, stressing that the provision of grazing land for herders would end the violent clashes between farmers and herders and the loss of lives and farm produce.
Reacting, IPOB in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, rejected the President’s directive to the governors, adding that there would be no land for Fulani for Ruga and ranches in the South-East.
“We in the IPOB movement and family will never allow ceding or selling any part of our ancestral land to these dangerous Fulani for whatever reason. The South East region has no land for Fulanis for whatever purpose,”
Powerful stated.
He said that people of the region are also farmers and pastoralists and that lands in the region are not sufficient for the people of the region to farm and rear their livestock, let alone ceding some to Fulani herdsmen.
“The North has the largest land mass. They can cede some to the Fulani but definitely not in the South East and South South.
“IPOB calls on all the governors in South East and South South not to surrender land to the Fulani herders by obeying the political call to give lands to Fulanis for RUGA and Ranching.
“IPOB and Ndigbo, in general, will resist any governor who gives or sells any land to Fulanis for whatever purpose.
“The ancestral land belongs to the people, not the governors. IPOB will not spare any governor who gives or sells land to the Fulanis for whatever purpose. Even if any governor is intimidated to give land to Fulanis, the ESN will ensure that Fulani never settle in any part of the region,” he vowed.
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