Member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency in the
House of Representatives and Chairman, House Committee on HIV/AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria Control, Amobi Ogah, has cautioned the Muslim
community in Umuchieze over attacks on members of his constituency on
the guise of herdsmen. He gave the warning when he visited Umuchieze
Cattle Market, Lokpanta in LGA to celebrate Eid-El-Fitr with the Muslim
Ummah doing business in the area.
Ogah noted that most people in the Community have stopped farming as a
result of insecurity in the area, thereby, causing hunger and poverty to the
people. According to the federal lawmaker, “The hunger in our place today
is because our people don’t go to farm again, herdsmen are raping our
women and they are giving you people a bad name. If we have elders like
you here and you cannot call the criminals to order, that means there is a
serious problem. I want the right thing to be done and we must change our
attitude.”
Ogah used the occasion to thank the Executive Governor of Abia State, Dr.
Alex Otti for his quick intervention in setting up Operation Crush to arrest
the situation when it was becoming unbearable.