Frontline rights group, the Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law (Intersociety) has updated its recently released list of Igbo communities occupied by Fulani herdsmen.

“There are still some, if not several Igbo Communities, Villages and other Locations including ‘Camps’ missing from our compiled list of ‘not less than 350’ released on Wednesday, 27th May 2020. Though we forensically identified 318 ‘communities, villages and other locations’, we also added ’32 dark figures’ so as to proportionally take care of those not included or ‘missing communities, villages and other locations’,” Intersociety said Sunday in a statement issued from its head office in Onitsha, Anambra State.

The statement signed by Emeka Umeagbalasi (Board Chairman) and Damaris Amaka Onuoha, Esq. (Head of Publicity) disclosed: “Several communal natives have called us from different parts of Igbo Land, saying: ‘their communities were omitted’. There are callers who complained of the omission of their communities or villages or locations in Isuikwuato LGA of Abia State, Idemmili South LGA of Anambra State, Afikpo LGA of Ebonyi State and Okigwe and Orlu LGAs of Imo State, etc. In Okposi Community, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, we were told that “their affected villages and locations or camps were not mentioned in the research report”.

“Some natives of other communities have specifically called us and mentioned the omission of their communities and pleaded for their inclusion. They included Communities of Ohofia-Agba in Isielu LGA of Ebonyi State, Umuomaku in Orumba South LGA of Anambra State, Agba-Umana in Ezeagu LGA of Enugu State, Lekwesi in Umunneochi LGA of Abia State, Obeagu in Isielu LGA of Ebonyi State, Okobo Plantation in Arochukwu, Arochukwu LGA of Abia State, Ojoto in Idemmili South LGA of Anambra State and Nara-Unataeze (almost all its villages are affected) and Ugboka in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State.

Pathetically, one of the messages we received from an ordained native of Amagunze Community in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State has this to say “they (Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen) took away our farmlands since 2015. The whole villages of Onicha-Agu and Umunevo in our Community of Amagunze used to farm in the area and since then, we have been buying everything (foodstuff/agricultural produce) from the market. They destroyed all our farmlands and crops then and have since occupied the area now bigger than the two villages”.”

Intersociety “passionately” appealed “to the natives of other Igbo communities who have found names of their communities missing from the list to feel free to send theirs to us for capturing, so as to be accommodated in our ongoing updates. In sending such names, non-natives of the affected communities and their villages or locations are excluded from doing so. The names of such excluded communities must include the Local Government Areas and States where they are located and can be sent or forwarded to: info@intersociety-ng.org and +2348174090052 (WhatsApp).”

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