About 15 communities in Orumba-South Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday raised the alarm over the menace of herdsmen in their area, alleging that the herdsmen were raping their wives and children.
Spokesperson for the communities, Mr Chukwudi Ugochukwu, made this disclosure at Orumba-South Local Government Area secretariat in Umunze, during a stakeholders’ meeting of the people of the area.
He disclosed that apart from allowing their cows to graze on farmlands, thereby destroying the people’s livelihoods, the herdsmen also randomly rape women and girls on their way to their farms.
Ugochukwu said that no fewer than 20 of such cases had being recorded, even as he decline further information about the dastardly act to save the victims from the attendant stigmatization
He said, “We live along the boundary with Imo State by Arondizuogu. All the farmlands there have been devastated by the herdsmen. Some of our women have been raped on the farmlands, but they refused to talk so that they will not be stigmatised. The entire Umunze is under threat.”
