By; ODEYEMI SAMUEL, Akure
There was a renewed Fulani herdsmen attack in Arodoye community, Akure South Local Government of Ondo State leaving a middle aged woman dead in her farm.
There was a renewed Fulani herdsmen attack in Arodoye community, Akure South Local Government of Ondo State leaving a middle aged woman dead in her farm.
The woman was reportedly hacked to death after her farm was invaded by suspected Fulani herdsmen where she had gone to for her daily routine
The herdsmen were also said to have dismembered the woman’s body with machete, after destroying over 200 acres of farmlands in the area.
Briefing journalists in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Thursday, a Customary Court of Appeal judge in the state, Justice Michael Owoyemi, lamented the incessant invasion of the herdsmen on their farms.
Owoyemi on behalf of other farmers, listed some of the farm products destroyed by the herdsmen to include, cassava, cocoyams, yams, vegetables while some part of cocoa farm was set on fire.
He traced the genesis of the invasion to December 2016 when the herdsmen harvested most of the farm produce during the Christmas /New Year break.
According to him, “two years later, the herdsmen returned last December destroying over 5,000 heaps of cassava in my farm. They took the advantage of the break and brought their cattle and uprooted the cassava to feed their cows”.
He went further, “we have reported the herdsmen to the security agents in the past and also to the traditional ruler of Akure, Deji of Akureland, Oba Aladelusi Aladetoyinbo who promised to wade into the matter”.
“The herdsmen are determined to send the farmers out of the farm in the South West unless steps are taken by the concerned authorities, hence it will degenerate to ethnic clashes in the south west. What they have destroyed in a twinkle of an eye is worth million of Naira”
While speaking on the implications of the development, Justice Owoyemi, said with the incessant invasion of herdsmen on farms in the area, “people will be sent out of the farm, this will affect food production in the South West region.
“Some people depend on farming while some people are destroying these farms, this will not encourage farming. Most of these people here depend on the farm produce to cater for their family and send their children to school.”
Briefing journalists in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Thursday, a Customary Court of Appeal judge in the state, Justice Michael Owoyemi, lamented the incessant invasion of the herdsmen on their farms.
Owoyemi on behalf of other farmers, listed some of the farm products destroyed by the herdsmen to include, cassava, cocoyams, yams, vegetables while some part of cocoa farm was set on fire.
He traced the genesis of the invasion to December 2016 when the herdsmen harvested most of the farm produce during the Christmas /New Year break.
According to him, “two years later, the herdsmen returned last December destroying over 5,000 heaps of cassava in my farm. They took the advantage of the break and brought their cattle and uprooted the cassava to feed their cows”.
He went further, “we have reported the herdsmen to the security agents in the past and also to the traditional ruler of Akure, Deji of Akureland, Oba Aladelusi Aladetoyinbo who promised to wade into the matter”.
“The herdsmen are determined to send the farmers out of the farm in the South West unless steps are taken by the concerned authorities, hence it will degenerate to ethnic clashes in the south west. What they have destroyed in a twinkle of an eye is worth million of Naira”
While speaking on the implications of the development, Justice Owoyemi, said with the incessant invasion of herdsmen on farms in the area, “people will be sent out of the farm, this will affect food production in the South West region.
“Some people depend on farming while some people are destroying these farms, this will not encourage farming. Most of these people here depend on the farm produce to cater for their family and send their children to school.”
