The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has reacted to the passage of the anti-open grazing bill passed into law by the Enugu State House of Assembly.
Recall that we reported that the state assembly passed the bill into law on Thursday, September 3, during plenary.
Reacting to the development, the President-General of the OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, in a statement said the lawmakers had won the hearts of the people.
The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation added that the leadership was all about listening to the voice of the people.
They further stated that the state lawmakers had shown themselves to be true representatives of the masses.
The statement read, “We are delighted with this big September gift from the Enugu State House of Assembly. The passage of this bill just at the exact time of the September deadline given by the Southern Governors is an indication that we have credible men and women in that parliament.
“The entire Igbo youths are saluting their courage, their boldness and forthrightness in handling that very critical assignment. They have written their names in history books and posterity will judge them fairly.”
Also, the youths applauded Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi over the passage of the bill.
They noted that “we have in His Excellency a Governor that is a man of the people. He has scored another great goal and for that reason the entire youths and residents of Enugu State are with him.”
“We assure him of our unflinching support to his administration”, they added.
The group further caution Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, to stop playing politics with people’s lives, adding that the state cannot operate in isolation from other states.
“Any further life lost in the hands of marauding herdsmen in Imo State will be required from his hand. Imo State is part of Southern Nigeria, Imo State is an Igbo State and they can’t operate in isolation simply because of political exigency.
“No political ambition or office should be equated with human life. Ndigbo have suffered enough in the hands of the killer herdsmen and the time to end it is now”, the group warned.
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