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Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, governor of Enugu state, has narrated his emotional battles on visiting Nimbo community, where suspected herdsmen attacked villagers on April 25 and killed several persons.

The governor was speaking on Friday night in a statewide broadcast announcing the setting up of a commission of inquiry into the carnage.

“My visit to Nimbo in order to establish firsthand the extent of carnage was revealing,” he said.

“I came face to face with the wounded and bereaved; I saw burnt and damaged parsonage of Christ Holy Church. I saw a traumatised community in shock and despair.

“I saw a dead body, I wept and wondered what has become of our quest for a united, peaceful and prosperous nation,” he said.

The governor said that only security agencies in the state would explain to Nigerians what happened even after receiving assurances from them that the security of the community was intact.

“The night before this carnage took place, I got security information from that such an incident was likely to take place in the community and immediately summoned a meeting of the State Security Council,” he said.

“In the meeting, we received assurances from the Commissioner of Police that the Area Commander of the State Anti Robbery Squad was on ground in Nimbo.”

“Let me state that the state government provided logistics for these deployments. Sadly, in the early hours of Monday, reports of this carnage reached me.”