No fewer than 15 communities in Orumba-South Local Government of Anambra State on Tuesday alleged that Fulani herdsmen were raping their wives and children.

Spokesperson of the community, Chukwudi Ugochukwu made the claim while speaking during a stakeholders meeting at Orumba-South Local Government Council Secretariat.

Ugochukwu lamented that herdsmen allowed their cows to graze on farms, thereby destroying people’s livelihoods.

According to the community spokesperson, “We live along the boundary with Imo State by Arondizuogu. All the farmlands there have been devastated by the herdsmen.

“Some of our women have been raped on the farmlands but they refused to talk so that they will not be stigmatised. The entire Umunze is under threat.”

He claimed that some women and girls had been raped on their way to their farms by the herdsmen, adding that no fewer than 20 of such cases had being recorded.