…urge Nigerians to boycott beef consumption

Edo youths have issued 14-day ultimatum to ‘killer herdsmen’ occupying farmlands and forest in Edo State to quit, warning that any act of aggression against lawful Citizens will not be tolerated.

This followed the alleged killing of three Nigerians including two vigilance members by suspected herders on Monday in Ugo N’iyekorhionmwon, Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the State.

The Speaker of Talakawa Parliament, Marxist Kola Edokpayi disclosed this at a Press Conference on Wednesday in Benin City, the State Capital.

He also gave 72 hours to the State Commissioner of police, Mr. Phillip Aliyu Agbadi to either arrest and prosecute the alleged killers or face mass protest.

The Speaker of the Benin-based pressure group, accused some traditional rulers of aiding and abetting with the killer herdsmen to rescind any agreement they have entered with the invaders for their own selfish interest.

While enjoining the State Government to immediately documentation of genuine herders with a view to fish-out criminal elements from the State, urged residents of the State to boycott consumption of beef indefinitely in relation to mutual reciprocity.

“We have given the killer herdsmen 14-day ultimatum to quit our farmlands and forest in Edo State. We have not given them notice to leave Edo State so that our mothers and fathers can go to farm”, he said.

Edokpayi said: “We are using this medium to call on the Commissioner of Police 72 hours to arrest to arrest this criminal elements that are responsible for the killing of our people in Ugo N’iyekorhionmwon, Orhionmwon Local Government or face mass protest.

“Our people can no longer travel…We believe in peaceful coexistence, however, nobody should take Edo people for a ride”, he warned.

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