By Peter Okutu

ABAKALIKI—A socio-political and cultural organization, Igbo Improvement Union (IIU), weekend called on Governors of the South East geo-political zone of the counry to place a total ban on cattle grazing across the zone.

According to the group, the Governors should also strengthen the ban through State Houses of Assembly by enacting a law  to that effect.

In a communiqué after their meeting in Abakaliki, signed by the President-General of the group, Barr. Ugochukwu Agballah and other leaders, including Senator Anthony Agbo; former Speaker Enugu state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Eugene Odoh and Chief Edozie Njoku, the group said Ndigbo has lost hundreds of sons and daughters as well as farmlands worth millions of naira to herdsmen, whose alleged murderous activities have become unbearable in recent times.

While opposing the proposal for government creation of grazing reserves, the group, made up of eminent personalities in Igbo land, mostly former political office holders advised that cattle rearing should be seen as private business enterprise.