MORE PROJECTS BY NENWE INTEGRITY FOUNDATION AFTER DONATING A MODERN STATION TO THE NIGERIA POLICE

As we celebrate the second anniversary of Nenwe Police Division…Not Yet Uhuru!
On the 2^nd of June 2018, Nenwe Integrity Foundation (NIF) handed over the newly constructed Police building to the Nigeria Police Force in an elaborate ceremony attended by all the Igwes of the four autonomous communities that make up Nenwe, leaders of town unions and associations, leaders of thought, political office holders, and all senior police officers in the Area Command, and some from the State Command. The ceremony was chaired by then Honourable Commissioner of Police for Enugu State, Alhaji Abubakar DanMallam, ably represented by then Assistant Commissioner of Police, Administration (now Deputy Commissioner), Mr Oliver Amaechi.

The Police building project was solely funded through freewill donations and levies from members of the Foundation. It was constructed to meet the stipulated basic requirements and standards for such structures in a modern era, with all facilities fully fitted. The construction of the building facilitated the upgrading of the former Police Post to a full division, serving Nenwe and Oduma. Today, the Police Station represents the biggest Federal government presence in the area, and has remarkably improved the security framework for the two towns, with evidence of reduced criminal activities.

However, it is not yet uhuru as the Foundation’s key objective in working towards upgrading the police station was to accelerate financial and economic activities in the town through the attraction of banks. Some years ago, a number of banks invited by the Foundation to Nenwe for feasibility studies insisted that the security architecture that existed at the time was inadequate to support banking operations. Hence, with the new Police Division up and running, the Foundation is still intensively engaging with banks to woo them to establish their branches in Nenwe.

We wish to therefore call on all Nenwerians who have links with any or some of the banks to join us in ‘marketing’ Nenwe to the them. We understand clearly that the decision to establish bank branches are often based on commercial considerations informed by appropriate cost-benefit analysis. However, the argument is equally not difficult to push. Nenwe is undoubtedly the biggest town in Aninri Local Government Area. The huge potential of our dear town lies in the large amount of agricultural and commercial activities that it attracts. For instance, the Orie Agu Market and other markets in the four villages that make up Nenwe, attract a lot of visitors from far and near. Nenwe is a major hub of agricultural and commercial activities in Enugu State. It is now really a question of which bank is willing to maximise this lucrative opportunity?

THE NIGERIAN COVID-19

 There you go sir. I restrained myself from reacting to Dr. Chinedu's write ups on the doubts by Nigerians on COVID -19 for a good number of reasons. First among the reasons is that I am an opinion moulder. My opinions on national issues matter a lot.

Truth is yes, there is COVID in Nigeria, evidently so. But our politicians are treating us like fools, hence the general apathy and lethargy. 

When Ebola was in Nigeria, we were told the name of the index case and how he came in. With COVID, we know nothing about his or her name. What we know is that he is Italian. We all know the nurse who died fighting Ebola. We know her family. We were shown on national TV her burial rites. With COVID, we have never seen any of such.

Also take a look at the following: a supposed index case was arrested in Makurdi for telling the press that she was negative. She has since been locked up. For six weeks now, no one has told us if she has died where they locked her up for lying . 


if she tested positive as the government wants us to believe, why is she still alive in her detention?  Why are the journalists who interviewed her not testing positive? God is such a wonderful God to Nigerians.

A popular pharmacist in Anambra was arrested and quarantined for testing positive to COVID. In his isolation centre, he addressed a press conference alleging that he was being used for political gains. The Anambra state commissioner for information, a former colleague of mine, refuted saying the man was mentally imbalanced as a result of what he has suffered from COVID and we should disregard him. 

The man has since gone home. None of the journalists who interviewed the man who was positive and called a press conference has tested positive. And we know they did not wear protective gears to the interview. Wonderful God.


We hear government is spending billions of naira on palliatives for citizens. We have never seen nor met anyone who says, "yes, I am a Beneficiary."

They say they are spending millions to feed school children who are at home. Can anyone here say his or her own children at home have benefited from such largesse? 

They announced in Abuja that they are going from house to house in the FCT to distribute palliatives. Since then I have not been locking gate in case the FCT minister and his team decide to visit me unannounced with my own ration. When they come, I will tell you. But I don't believe them. 

They told us Atiku's son tested positive and slept and danced with ladies at a night club in abuja. Only he tested positive. His wife and children nko? Wonderful Allah.

Governor El rufai announced he tested positive and went into self isolation. Two weeks later he announced he tested negative. There is no testing centre in Kaduna. NCDC said they never tested the governor. Who tested him, where, when??? Alahu Akbar.

In other parts of the world, we see COVID patients struggling for breath. In Nigeria, COVID patients stage protests at isolation centres for lack of welfare. So are they so healthy to stage protests? Nigerians are known to be resilient even on their dying beds.

In some isolation centres we have seen COVID patients complain and  escape from isolation centres. And they have COVID? But they are healthy enough yo escape?

Last month, there was a scandal in one of the isolation centres in Abuja. Sex scandal. Male and female COVID patients were frolicking. Government said they felt embarrassed and then realized the urgent need to separate males from female isolation centres. 

COVID patients are healthy to engage in that type of physical and emotional exercise without observing social and physical distancing?? Were they spouses?/No. They only met at the isolation centre and fell in love. No wonder, Jesus wept when Lazarus died. 

We have never seen any of the wives of the big men who said they tested positive also testing positive. This Nigerian COVID must be discriminatory. It takes only the men and ignore their wives. Lucky women.

Last week, Chief Raymond Dokpesi owner of Raypower FM announced they said he tested positive and he went to the hospital in Gwagwalada Abuja. He said they administered chloroquine on him and he tested negative. He then asked in a video that went viral, what are the differences between symptoms of malaria and COVID. We are still waiting for answers.

Everyday the number keeps increasing. We never see the dead being buried. In Italy we see ambulances taking away corpses every now and then. But in Nigeria, baaaabu

They imposed a curfew in Nigeria. Stay indoors between 8pm and 6am. Go to work between 6am and close at 3pm. 

So, our own type of COVID moves around only at night?. Made in Nigeria COVID. 

Yes, there is COVID in Nigeria from all indications, but citizens no longer trust their leaders. We don't believe them because of the too many liars surrounding the pandemic.

Fifteen Chinese doctors came to Nigeria six weeks ago to help us fight COVID. Last week, Nigeria's minister for health said he did not know their whereabouts. Today, the minister for interior said they did not come at the instance of Nigerian government but to work for a Chinese company, CCECC based in Abuja.

I am happy that Oga Charlie is disheartened at the barefaced lies Nigerian ministers tell. You just watched NTA news and you are so annoyed, abi?. Metu lu eyi eka nwele

There is COVID in Nigeria. But it is not the same type you have elsewhere. Our own is made in Nigeria. It could be more contagious than the type you know. 

Will I be angry that Nigerians are getting increasingly disillusioned with their government and saying they are not sure of this COVID anymore? NO. 

Is there COVID in Nigeria, yes. Is our government telling us the truth about it? NOOOOO. 

Good night
Chief Cyril O Oleh (Ph.D)

SKILLS ACQUISITION TRAINING BY NENWE INTEGRITY FOUNDATION.

My dear people of Nenwe. I bring you greetings and good tidings from Nenwe Integrity Foundation. Nenwe Integrity Foundation is happy to announce to ndi Nenwe that the Skills Acquisition training for Nenwe youths which we promised earlier took off effectively at nkwu esha Nenwe on October 21st, 2019.
Twenty five youths from across Nenwe villages are currently being trained free of charge in different skills including carpentry and joinery, tiling, cosmetic making, GSM repairs,  Motorcycle repairs,  house wiring, etc. After a careful study by a committee set up for that reason,  NIF chose the skills that would address the immediate needs of the community. The scheme aims at providing resource persons for our own use in our own community. It will also empower our own people to be useful and fend for themselves and their families while providing steady pool for people who may need their services. 

Nenwe Integrity Foundation employed the services of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) which sent it it's staff to select and prune down the number of participants for this first batch of trainees. NDE is also providing trainers, some of whom were sourced locally. 

We are happy that over 72 Nenwe youths indicated interest in the training following the announcements in churches and use of Town criers across the villages. However, due to funding and logistics, we can only accommodate 25 members at the first instance. The twenty five were carefully selected following agreed criteria. In NIF, we have no nepotism. We believe in merit based on open selection criteria. The training involves theories and practicals. After the training, we also plan to help the successful graduates to get job placements with older men and women for more on the job skills acquisition. Where possible, the graduands will be encouraged to start small scale businesses or to go out and work for people in the various skills they have learned. 

This training is costing NIF close to N2.5 million for the this batch. This money takes care of honorarium for the trainers, cost of procuring training aids and materials, transportation for NDE staff etc.  

Appeals: NIF appeals that after their training, we should start engaging our own youths to work for us rather than hire artisans from neighbouring towns.  We also appeal to those of us who can afford it, to please assist these brothers and sisters to start their own businesses so that they can hire and teach others for multiplying effects. Recall that NIF has bought a sewing machine for one lady who has since started her own business.  This way, we help to reduce indolence, tendency for criminality and crimes among youths in our families and in Nenwe. We have also set up a committee that will monitor the graduates after the training for follow ups.

I want to thank all those who donated to this cause. I thank members of NIF for their personal sacrifices towards this  initiative. We are still open for financial assistance. Should you so desire to help in any way, please contact the leadership of NIF privately. All donations will be acknowledged and announced except where donors choose to be anonymous. You can donate for training on a particular skill acquisition. We respect donors intentions. More importantly, I pledge that every donation will be used judiciously and with utmost integrity . That is our watchword. Together we can move Nenwe forward. God bless you. God bless Nenwe.  (pictures of the training sessions from Nenwe accompany this write up). 

Chief (Dr) Cyril Oleh)
President General, NIF

THE BRAVE LADY,GBURUGBURU & NSUKKA YOUTHS

On Monday, tomorrow, I will be once again occupied by my daily teaching activities like each one of us in your own ethical works all over the world.

I had planned to say bye to this matter but as responses trickle in one is at personal feeling to respond.

I still hail that young woman for speaking out her mind. She, like some of us, was angered by what we read and pictures we saw realistically from natural human settings in Nenwe and now Nomeh.

All the outburst from this Nsukka Youths’ spokesman is the worst tactic used to confuse people.

In all his speech one did not hear him clear the Governor of why he gave people money in Nenwe and called the money tobacco/ chop chop money; and we Nigerians or human beings know better when human beings behave like that in a matter like what that, means.

If Nenwe people clashed or have an issue with the murderous group like the Fulani/ Cattle Herders. If a Governor goes there the communique that would be issued and would give reasonable Nenwe and other people a sense of security and transparency will be stern security measures we could lay hands on in the communique, not bribe money being given to anyone.

In short, the Govetnor’s handling of the matter still remains foggy to say the least.

The Nsukka spokesman did not give us a sound method by which the governor settled the encounter of Nenwe people and the killers. He just kept heaping blames on the young women even questioning her Nsukka citizenship: does that matter to standing and proclaiming the truth?

Instead of haunting for the young woman, let the Nsukka Youths come out and verify for us that the lands said to be given to the Ruga Project in Nomeh and Emudo, Nenwe that are defended by mobile police are false!

We got nothing from the spokesman than the usual Nigerian corrupt way of defending even a demon if he will give out pepper soups/ jobs/ and position.

To date, what transpired in Nenwe and now Momeh remains scary!

Why hasn’t the Igwe who was implicated in this matter come out to clear the cloud?

We would listen to him to tell us as Nenwe people what he knows as a person who is in the epicenter of the whole controversy.

May the young woman live long for her bravery. Whatever happens to her, she will be Enugu State Jones de Arc, I hope I spelled her names well: the gallant French Lady That was burned to death on the stake for her bravery whose portrait can be seen on the shoulders of French elite Navy Units in recognition of her bravery when it was not recognized by the people of her time.

The young women has balls in between her legs in such a way that some of us men are not even close!

J.C.

Fulani herders owe farmers over N10m in damages, we don’t want them in our community again –Nenwe residents

SATURDAY STORY
Fulani herders owe farmers over N10m in damages, we don’t want them in our community again –Nenwe residents
Published July 6, 2019
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Raphael Ede, Enugu

Agbada Nenwe community in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State was recently in the news after a viral video showed people believed to be from the community escorting some herders suspected to be Fulani, and a large number of cattle out of the place.

The police and Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria in the South-East have denied the video, saying such a thing never happened there, but Saturday PUNCH investigation has shown that the video originated from the community.

Contrary to the police report denying that some herders and their cows were driven out of Agbada Nenwe by members of the community, some members of the community, who spoke to our correspondent when he visited the community during the week, confirmed that they actually drove the herders with their cattle away from their community. According to them, the herders and their cattle were allegedly driven to the community from other adjoining communities, although, they did not mention such other communities.

Some of those who spoke to Saturday PUNCH ascertained the veracity of the online video showing youths of the community chasing herders and their cattle out of the community, and also justified their action. However, it appeared that members of the community had been advised to be silent on the incident, but some of them recounted what they had lost in the hand of Fulani herders in the last four years.

They took our correspondent to hectares of land that were claimed to have been abandoned and uncultivated because of the activities of herders in the community, as they said they wouldn’t want them to return to torment the community again.

They claimed that the herders owed the community N10.9m worth of crops their cattle had destroyed in various farms there.

The state police command had in a statement by its Public Relations Officer in the state, Ebere Amaraizu, a Superintendent, dismissed as false the report and online video showing herders and hundreds of cows being asked to leave the host community.

The police had in its statement said, “the Nigeria Police Force wishes to inform members of the public that its attention has been drawn to information in existence that a large herd of cattle and some herders were escorted peacefully out of Nenwe, Aninri community of Enugu State on 29/6/19 by youths believed to be from Agbada Nenwe and further wish to update members of the public who may have been misinformed with the state of things.

“On receipt of this information, the state Commissioner of Police directed for an investigation into the alleged development and that following preliminary enquiry conducted, it was revealed that such situation never existed and that it was only the movement of cattle and herders from Cross River State through Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and a neighbouring town for grazing.

“That the herders and their cattle were on transit and had got nothing to do with escorting out of herders and cattle out of the said community.

“That the said piece of information in circulation is viewed to be the handiwork of mischief makers who want to brew rancour, cause panic and fear and also sow seeds of acrimony as well as instigate violence.”

It further stated that the command had commenced investigation to arrest those spreading the “mischievous information” so that they could be brought to justice.

Toeing the same narrative, the state governor, Mr Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, denied that such incident happened as he appealed for peaceful coexistence between cattle breeders and members of their host communities in the state.

The governor, who visited the Agbada Nenwe on Monday, had while addressing a joint meeting of members of the community and their Fulani counterparts, described the state as peaceful and a home for all.

Igwe Francis Imo, traditional ruler of the community, however, described what happened on June 29, 2019 as a ‘spontaneous incident’ that did not amount to chasing herders from the community.

“What you saw was a spontaneous reaction and not that Fulani people were driven out of Agbada Nenwe,” he said.

On his part, the Zonal Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Gidado Siddiki, described the clip as misleading and inciting.

“We seek understanding devoid of inhibitive suspicion in our commitment towards a more conducive environment for our business to thrive in a more vibrant and progressive state economy,” Siddiki said.

But a member of the community, who gave his name as Obinna Ofudo, said the atrocities the herders had unleashed on the community in the last four years were unimaginable.

“Before now, herders cohabited peacefully with people in our community. They didn’t steal and destroy our crops, they didn’t rape our women.  But from four years ago, the new faces of herders that have been coming to our community have been terrorists. They are too hostile; they uproot our cassava to feed their cattle.

“Can you imagine that a herder would come to your farm while you are harvesting your rice and tell you to hasten up, that his cattle want to eat? If for some reason you could not finish harvesting the crops that day, before the next day, their cattle would have consumed the farm crops.

“So, if you want good things, do not destroy other people’s properties. Their cattle are their business and our farm is our own business,” he said.

Similarly, a resident who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being attacked, said, “(Regarding) the issue about if there is anything they can do for us to accept them back again, (I will say) they should leave our farm for us because they want to put us in hunger. In fact, it is not that they want to do that, they have already put us in hunger. A young person or an old woman will plant crops that they need to feed their family with, but before it is time to harvest the crops, they will take their cattle to the farm and destroy everything. You cannot get anything. All your efforts, your money and everything, they will destroy.

“Since they started destroying our farm crops, they have not paid any damages or compensation for what they caused. They have never done that in this area. In a neighbouring village, people there said that they were trying to drive their cattle away and wounded one of them, they (herdsmen) collected money because of that, but for their things and the crops that they (the cattle) destroyed, they (herders) did not pay anything for them.”

He said the herders started acting with impunity about four years ago.

“They had been coming before; we didn’t have any problem with them. They would come when we had already harvested our crops from the farms and we wouldn’t quarrel with them. And when it was time for next farming season, they would leave with their cattle. But at some point, they started coming before the harvesting period to destroy our farms.

“We have complained to the police and other security agencies but nothing has been done about it and they will come the next time and destroy even more things. Even police have visited our farms to see things for themselves – farms the herders had destroyed with their cattle. So, we are saying we don’t want them again in our community,” he said.

However, midway into the investigation, our correspondent was accosted by the President General of the community, Prince Horace Oguejiofor, who was in company with some local security men. They said they were scared and demanded to know who sent the reporter. The reporter was held up for 30 minutes, and pictures of his car and identification card were taken. Despite his explanation, they claimed that he might have been sponsored by the herdsmen to spy on the community. It took the intervention of The PUNCH to get him freed.

When the President General was sure that he was not on spy mission, he confirmed to Saturday PUNCH that “the herders owed my community over N10.9m worth of crops that were assessed to have been destroyed by their cattle. The document is with government and the police are aware of it. They told us they would come and pay the damages but regrettably as we speak, they have not done so”.

Meanwhile, when the zonal leader of Miyetti Allah in the South-East, Siddiki was contacted on the telephone to respond to the allegation that herders owed the community millions of naira in damages, he did not answer his calls.

As at the time of filing this report, he had not called back or replied the text messages sent to his phone number.

https://punchng.com/fulani-herders-owe-farmers-over-n10m-in-damages-we-dont-want-them-in-our-community-again-nenwe-residents/