Reps investigate Fulani herdsmen attack in Ekiti

From Kemi Yesufu, Abuja and Oladele Oguntimehin

THE House of Representa­tives, yesterday, resolved to investigate attacks on Ekiti people by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

To this end, the House is to constitute an Ad hoc Committee to conduct an investigation on the motive behind the attack.

In adopting a motion raised under matters of urgent public importance, entitled: “Urgent need to investigate the fatal in­vasion of Oke Ako Ekiti community by suspected herdsmen,” the House also called on the Inspec­tor – General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase to deploy police personnel to affected areas to pre­vent a repeat of the at­tack.

Lawmakers equally urged the National Emer­gency Management Agency (NEMA) to send relief materials to affect­ed communities.

Leading the debate on the motion, Agboola warned that the attacks if not curbed would lead to reprisal, which could threaten the peaceful co-existence among different groups currently being experienced across the country.

The lawmaker won­dered how the call for Nigerians to embrace ag­riculture by current ad­ministration, in a bid to di­versify the economy will work, when farmers are being attacked and their farms destroyed by sus­pected Fulani herdsmen.

”Lives are randomly lost in these incessant at­tacks and sometimes in a dimension that is simi­lar only to genocide, just like the one at Oke Ako in Ekiti State.

“Certain states are al­ready taking steps to stem the tide in a manner that suggests that the Federal Government is seemingly insensitive to this very worrisome development, “the lawmaker said.