Killing of 25 Persons in Enugu by Herdsmen is Fake News – Group insists

By Mark Akudu, Kogi

Concerned Professionals For Good Governance, A Good Leadership Advocacy Group has described the news of the killing of 25 persons in Enugu by herdsmen fake news.

In a press statement released to press men titled “Debunking The Politricks of Insecurity: Enugu State on Our Minds”.

Mr Okechukwu Nwafor, Coordinator of the group in the statement said the story with the caption, 25 Persons Killed, Scores Injured As Armed Herdsmen Attack Enugu Village is not only built on devious masturbatory hallucination, but completely false.

The statement reads further “Agreed that lately marauding herdsmen have been running amok across the Country, invading towns and villages, and leaving a trail of sorrow, tears and blood in their path. 

“However, there was no such invaders attack on the agrarian communities of Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area in Enugu State that  left 25 persons dead.”

“This independent rebuttal of the falsehood targeted at diminishing the halcyon strides of Governor Peter Ndubuisi Mbah and the Enugu State Government in the area of Security is long overdue. 

“We MUST not suffer ‘alarmists and fifth Columnists’ gladly. We have therefore chosen to debunk the devious falsehood of tale-mongers and bearers of false report and fake news.”

“Twice the false tale of marauding Herdsmen sacking communities in Enugu State have been bandied by those who are desperate to undermine the success of Enugu State in protecting lives and property. 

“Not having any scores against the Enugu State Government in areas of Infrastructural Development, Education, Healthcare, Agriculture, and regarding facts about the profound strides of the Enugu State Government, naysayers have resorted to the Politricks Of Insecurity.

“We reached out to local Vigilantes, to Security Agencies as well as Agents of Government at the State and the Local Government level, sadly we found out that it was untrue. And we decided to query the possible reasons cum intention of the bearers of the false report and the fake news.”

“Enugu State has a premium time Digitalised Security Control Centre. Enugu State collaborates seamlessly with the Police, the Army and other Paramilitary Agencies charged with the protection of lives and property.

” Enugu State is doing profoundly well in almost all the sectors of leadership, and Enugu State has become the go-to location for Corporate, Public Sector and Private Sector retreats and Conventions as well as Governmental events” they stated.