BREAKING: Och’Otukpo orders herders to leave Otukpo Kingdom after deadly attack

The Och’Otukpo Odu, Chief John Eimonye, has directed each herders to vacate each portion of Otukpo Kingdom with contiguous effect.

This follows Sunday’s onslaught connected Nobi Village successful Otukpo District wherever respective persons were killed.

The directive was issued aft an onslaught allegedly carried retired by equipped herders connected Nobi Village connected Sunday, July 12, 2026, amid increasing information concerns successful the area.

In a connection signed by the Secretary of the Otukpo District Traditional Council, Chief Udeh Adole, the accepted ruler said the continued beingness of herders had go a superior menace to the safety, information and well-being of the radical of Otukpo Kingdom.

He stressed that the directive should not beryllium interpreted arsenic prejudice oregon profiling against immoderate radical but described it arsenic a indispensable measurement to safeguard lives and reconstruct bid successful the kingdom.

According to the statement, the monarch expressed heavy interest implicit the recurring attacks allegedly linked to equipped herders and lamented what helium described arsenic the continued neglect of his people, who helium said had been near astatine the mercy of the attackers.

Chief Eimonye vowed that Otukpo District would not beryllium taken implicit by immoderate involvement nether his watch, insisting that the radical of the Otukpo Abakwu Kingdom were determined to support their ancest...