Militants reply herdsmen, vow to repel attacks on Delta

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Militants reply herdsmen, vow to repel attacks on Delta

‘Fulani Jihadists’ give Okowa 72-hour ultimatum over ban on open grazing
‘Fulani Jihadists’ give Okowa 72-hour ultimatum over ban on open grazing
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta ZState

*We’ll retaliate any attack on Delta—MEDND

*South’ll resist attempts to deride open grazing ban—Clark

*As UYLA issues quit notice to herders

*Address threat within 7 days, NAPS tells Buhari

*Police assure Deltans of safety

*Fulani leaders disown threat to attack Delta

By Emma Amaize, Festus Ahon & Ochuko Akuopha, ASABA

A new militant group, Movement for the Emancipation and Defence of Niger Delta, MEDND, yesterday, threatened that for anyone killed or facility destroyed in Delta State by suspected Northern fanatics in the name of herdsmen, its fighters would retaliate.

Meanwhile, the leader of Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF, Chief Edwin Clark, has warned that the South will resist any attempt to deride it over the recent ban on open grazing declared by the region’s governors.

This came as Urhobo Youth Leaders’ Association, UYLA, issued a 48- hour quit notice to all Fulani herdsmen to…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper