Ohanaeze Youths Give S/East Lawmakers Deadline To Pass Anti-Open Grazing Bills

The Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, has issued 30 days ultimatum to lawmakers in Houses of Assembly across south-eastern states to pass the anti-open grazing bills before their respective chambers or face recall.

The group’s national president, comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, reportedly issued the warning during an interactive session with journalists in Enugu on Tuesday.

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In a statement on Tuesday, Igboayaka’s media aide, ThankGod Emeh, quoted him as saying the OYC was aware of allegations that the lawmakers had received N5 billion from Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association to stop passage of the bills.

The statement reads in part: “The House of Assembly members in South East should watch their actions and inactions and as well know that they are commonly living with the people in various communities in Igboland without any form of immunity or sophisticated security detail like the governors, therefore any attempt to take bribe and jettison the anti-open grazing Bill will be a foolhardy that endangers not only their lives but that of family members as well as Neighbors in South-East”

“South-East has become the land of blood spillage by incessant attacks of fulani herdsmen that Enugu and Ebonyi states had most victims of fulani attacks and our farm lands has been deserted that famine will soon hit southeast, therefore those behind all attempts to collect five billion naira (5b) from Miyetti Allah Cattle Rearers to jeopardize southeast security should know that “Ukwu na a ga wamwam, anya na a ga zamzam na ahu ya.

“Ohanaeze Youth Council call on Community youths of Igbo extraction to rise up now and resist any attempt to scuttle Anti-Open Grazing Bill by current dubious house of assembly members in Southeast.

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“With this fast and unpatriotic attempt to sell out Ndigbo to killer herdsmen, Ohanaeze Youth Council gives Southeast house of assembly members 30 days to pass the anti-Open Grazing Bill into law with immediate effect, as failure to do so without doubt mean that the whooping 5 billion naira was really collected and acted upon.

“Consequently, after the 30 days there will be an All- Igbo Youth Match to the family house of the house of assembly members to demonstrate a civil disobedient from the people.

“This movement will be more heavy than Aba Women mass resistance (riot) that made Britain to stand-still.

“Moreso, South-East House of Assembly Members should emulate their counterpart- Rivers State House of Assembly members that have acted on the request of the masses in the state by passing the anti-open Grazing Bill.

“The southeast Governors led by Gov. David Umahi Shouldn’t romance killer fulani Herdsmen but should embrace this call, and remember that it was lack of leadership direction as regards insecurity in Igbo land that made pro-Biafrans to take laws into their hands-on self-defense, and the consequence of such act is still an untold story in South-East.” Igboayaka concluded.

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