A farmer and his two sons have been killed by suspected herders at Amaeze, Ishiagu Community in the Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi state.
The ugly incident occurred on Friday when the farmer and his two sons farmed on their farmland.
In a statement on Sunday, the local government chairman Emmanuel Ajah said that he received the news with a rude shock.
“It is with sadness that I, Hon. Chief Ajah Emmanuel Ogbonna, the executive chairman of Ivo Local Government Area received the news of the brutal killing of three of my people who went to their farmland for farming activities. Regrettably, this evil act happened to a father and his two sons,” he said.
Ajah described the killing of the three persons as an evil act, assuring that the government is not relenting in its efforts to safeguard the lives and properties of the people.
According to him, stakeholders including the military, divisional police officers, Department of State Services, town union executives, and various community leaders have held an emergency security meeting.
He said during the meeting, they chatted about a better way to arrest the situation to avoid a breakdown of law and order and to forestall a reoccurrence of such an evil act.
“Conclusively, I strongly vow that the perpetrators of this ugly act shall be brought to book no matter what it might cost the government. We can’t stand to watch herders maim and kill our people like chickens and allow them to be,” the LG boss said.
