Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, says all Fulani herdsmen have left the state.
The governor, briefing journalists on Tuesday at the end of the state’s executive council meeting, noted that northerners are not to blame for the insecurity in the state.
Umahi, who condemned the attack on police facilities in the South-East, however, urged leaders and other stakeholders in the region to rise up and condemn the killings.
The governor said: “We are killing policemen, we are burning police station which means that South-East leaders should know that our problem is not just herdsmen.
“We want to put it on record that no herdsman is in Ebonyi State now.
“We didn’t ask them to leave. They left on their own, which means they were privy to the attacks on Ebonyi State.
“I have been begging the national leadership that with what is going on, no state governor is in control of bandits and because of the killing of the defenceless Ebonyi people and their safety, they should not return now.
“There is tension now. We have sent text messages to Miyetti Allah that Ebonyi is under tension and we would not want them to still stay until such a time that the state is safe.”
