By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused Enigu State Governor Peter Mbah of pampering terrorist herdsmen, even as it expressed support for the protest embarked upon by the women of Eha Amufu in Isi Uzo Local Government Area of state over the menace of ?Fulani terrorist herdsmen? in the area.

IPOB in a statement on Friday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said that every concerned Igbo person should join in discouraging ?the unholy romance between the Enugu State Governor and the Fulani terrorists to avoid mass murders, rapes and the dehumanization going on in Enugu State.?

IPOB recalled that in the past, it warned Governor Mbah ?to stop the unholy romance or alliance with the Fulani terrorists nicknamed herdsmen and their sponsors in the North?, regretting that the Governor failed to heed the warning.

The statement reads in part: ?No responsible governor will pally with murderous terrorists like Peter Mba is doing. His focus should have been to take a drastic action to deter the marauding terrorists.

?You don?t pacify terrorists but instead must deter them with forceful actions. Unfortunately, in Nigeria, the government chooses to befriend and pay the terrorists millions of dollars to pacify them, and we think it is to encourage and sustain their activities against the Nigerian people.

?The actions of the Nigerian government have emboldened the Fulani terrorists to launch bloody attacks and the killings of thousands of Indigenous People in Nigeria while the same Nigerian government manhandles and humiliates an innocent and peaceful freedom fighter, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB members and Biafrans in general. This is the reason Nigeria has remained among the top countries that are terrorized (#6) according to the Global Terrorism Index report of 2020 to 2024. ?

The group called on the Enugu State Governor ?to think outside the box on how to secure the lives and properties of Enugu citizens against Fulani terrorists, instead of coercing and sending a delegation of some Enugu Traditional Rulers to the Head of the Caliphate in Sokoto, the Sultan of Sokoto to beg for a peaceful coexistence with these murderous foot soldiers called Fulani (terrorist) herdsmen.?

?The women from Eha Amufu have protested for two days, demanding for Governor Peter Mba to address their pitiful situation in the hands of the Fulani terrorists. Unfortunately, the governor has refused to address the peaceful protesting mothers in order to not offend his Fulani friends.

?Sadly, some of Governor Mba?s political appointees insulted the traumatized mothers protesting as being sponsored by the governor?s political enemies. What a shame? How can Igbo women be paid to say that they have been raped?

?One wonders what exactly is wrong with Governor Peter Mba and his political circle? They speak as if they are not in Enugu State to have witnessed the terrorist attacks from the Fulani terrorists.

?Governor Peter Mba has to address the concerns of our women, our mothers and daughters by addressing the protesters, and ensuring that Fulani terrorists nicknamed herdsmen do not engage in any open grazing in Enugu State. The governor should treat any armed Fulani herder as a terrorist. Open grazing is banned in the South East Region. Therefore, no Fulani terrorist is expected to engage in open grazing in the South East Region,? IPOB added.