By Rotimi Olaleye

Ado-Ekiti—Following the arrest of 76 Igbo villagers from Ugwuneshi autonomous community, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State over a clash between the natives and Fulani herdsmen, Governor Fayose of Ekiti State has called on lovers of peace to speak up on the threat posed by Fulani herdsmen to the unity of the nation.

His words: “It has gotten to a level that lovers of peace in Nigeria must speak out on this keg of gun powder which the Fulani herdsmen has become.”

No fewer than 76 men from the Ugwuneshi Autonomous community were last Thursday arrested and whisked away by “men in military uniform” after they protested the continued destruction of their crops and farmlands by Fulani herdsmen and their cattle who settled in the area without permission.