The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide met and discussed extensively the recent killing by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria and resolved as follows :
(1) That The activities of Fulani herdsmen and the Benue massacre is unfortunate and can cause another avoidable tension in the country especially now the elections of 2019 is around the corner, we condemned vehemently the terrorist attack of the Fulani herdsmen and call for self defense as a measure to halt it
(2) Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council worldwide have banned and Proscribed the outlawed Fulani herdsmen in Igboland especially in the 95lgs of South East and call on the Youths not to take laws into their hands but want the federal government to declare them a terrorist group
(3) We hail the Peoples Governor of Abia Dr Okezie Ikpeazu and the heroic stand of Governor of Anambra Willie Obiano for rejecting the Cattle colonies in Abia and Anambra states, We know other Igbo Governors will follow the footsteps of their colleagues and reject these anti people’s policy, We are calling on the federal government to establish piggies colonies in Northern Nigeria to help feed our people over there.
4) We are calling on our people to vigilant and report to security agents on the activities of any suspected Fulani herdsmen to appropriate channels
5)Oyc hereby issue this Warning to all the Fulani herdsmen that they should vacate South East immediately or face the wrath of Igbo Youths and any attempt to ignore this warning, they have themselves to blame.. And restate that all the Activities of Fulani herdsmen has been proscribed and banned in South East with immediate effect.
Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro
President General
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council worldwide
Mazi Okwu Nnabuike
Secretary General
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council worldwide
Engr Obinna Adibe
National Publicity secretary
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council worldwide