Enugu Massacre: Herdsmen Removed Hearts, Fingers Of Victims

Chief Ike Ekweremadu visits Nimbo community

The last is yet to be heard about the attack on Nimbo community, of Enugu State by Fulani herdsmen.
This is as the residents made a shocking revelation during the visit of the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu.
One of the natives told reporters that the marauders did not stop at killing the defenceless residents, but left with either their hearts or their fingers.
“What we witnessed here is the most gruesome thing I have seen in my life; I’m over 60 years old but I have never seen this kind of thing.
“These are not human beings as far as I’m concerned; do you know that they left with the heart of some of their victims? They cut their bodies open from the back after killing them and removed their hearts.
“We also noticed that for some other casualties, its either they left with their fingers of their jaws”, he said in tears.

He equally lamented that “even the survivors equally lost one part of the body or the other; some of them are at the National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu, battling to see if miraculous healing could come their way.”
Meanwhile, the South-East Governors are set to visit Nimbo for an on-the-spot assessment of the carnage wrecked by the herdsmen.
This is as the South-East Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rose from their closed door meeting with the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in Enugu State on Sunday with a resolve to visit the troubled community, where scores of persons were gruesomely murdered last Monday.
The governors include, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, Dave Umahi of Ebonyi and Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State.
Briefing newsmen at the end of their meeting, Ekweremadu said the governors would get their colleague governors from Anambra, Chief Willy Obiano and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State to join them in the proposed visit to the community within the week.

He said the visit was aimed at taking stock of the carnage in the area, with a view to taking a definite position as leaders of the South-East zone.
He explained that all the five governors would have been part of the meeting, noting that the impromptu nature of the gathering made it impossible for them to reach out to the governors of Anambra and Imo States.
They, however, condemned in strong terms the massacre of innocent, hapless and defenceless people of Ukpabi Nimbo community and asked that efforts should be made to arrest the security problem before it got out of hand.