Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo has categorically stated that the perpetrators of insecurity plaguing the South-East region are overwhelmingly of Igbo extraction, directly countering widespread allegations implicating Fulani herdsmen.
Mr Soludo made the revelation while addressing indigenes of Anambra in the US during a town hall meeting in Maryland.
He said: “The so-called liberators hiding in the forests are homegrown criminals feeding fat on blood money. They come under the guise that they are the ones protecting you from Fulani herdsmen.
“They live in the bushes for months, but no one has ever asked how these so-called liberators survive in the forest. They have to feed, who is paying for their services, don’t they have needs?
“In my three years and three months in office, 99.99% of the kidnappers and other criminals we’ve arrested are Igbo. Let’s stop the lies. Igbos are kidnapping and killing fellow Igbos, not Fulani.”
Meanwhile, a rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, has countered the governor, insisting that herdsmen were actually in bushes in the zone.
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