Normal School activities was on Thursday last week brought to a halt in Umuhu Comprehensive Secondary School, in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area as nomadic Fulani Cattles violently chased the pupils around, the school premises revealed the school headmistress, Mrs Uche Amole.
Dennis Opara who witnessed the incident recounted that for the past six months, indigenes of Mbutu-Okohia, Amankwu and Umuechem all in Umuhu Community located along Owerri/Aba road have been living in constant fear of the incessant attacks on their farm yards, properties and lives of their children by these Fulani’s and their Dare-Devil Cattles.
According to another villager who didn’t want his name mentioned, these Fulani’s usually perpetrate this act in the night as they carefully move their cattle into the schools, market or any convenient place of their choice living faeces of the animals littered every were in the community.
Appealing to the Government, the peace loving and defendless people of Ngor Okpala cries out that they would not want to experience the similar mass massacre suffered by the people of Umuapu, Ihie, Obitti and Awarra Communities in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area which included their farm produce, one of the villagers lamented.
In another development Opara called on the loving Governors of the State, Chief Rochas Okorocha to also in the Spirit of “Rescue Mission” agenda take a critical look at the danger facing the pupils of Umuhu Comprehensive Secondary School which is located along the ever busy Owerri-Aba road.
He stated that road accidents and kidnapping has become a regular occurrence in the area adding that there is increasing need for ZEBRA CROSSING LINES across the point.
Finally, he called on the government to re-visits and enforces the Imo Legislative law passed against animal loitering in the state to help ameliorate the problem.
