GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Tuesday morning, cut off all his other official engagements for on-the-spot assessment of the troubled Ukpabi-Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the State, where Fulani herdsmen had engaged the host community in a bloody clash.
Governor Ugwuanyi is also expected to visit the Bishop Shanahan Hospital, Nsukka where the slain bodies of the villagers were kept as well as wounded people who are currently receiving treatment amidst tight security.
Meanwhile, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amarizu, has confirmed that another dead body has been recovered in the area bringing the total casualties to six.
Amarizu said: "The Enugu state command of the Nigeria Police Force have commenced a full scale investigations into the alleged killing of six persons on 25/4/16 at Nimbo in Uzo uwani Local Government Area of Enugu state by men suspected to be herdsmen."
"Following the report of the incident, the commissioner of police Enugu State, Nwodibo Ekechukwu, had mobilised and left with operatives to ensure that the incident did not degenerate into uncontrollable situation and to work out modalities/strategies aimed at fishing out those behind the unfortunate incident and bring them to book."
The Police Spokesman said that normalcy has been returned to the area as security has equally been beefed up in the area and its environs by the commissioner of police to avoid further breakdown of law and other as well as further attack in the area.
"The Commissioner of Police Nwodibo Ekechukwu has vowed to bring perpetrators to book.bEkechukwu who was in the area charged people of Nimbo to continue to be law abiding and never to take laws into their hands," he added.
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