HERDSMEN INVADE OGUN, DESTROY N6.8M FARM

Herdsmen, constantly accused of destroying crops and farmlands across Nigeria.

In what seemed to be direct confrontation with the Ogun people, herdsmen have invaded four hectres of land in Likosi-Alabata village in Papalanto in Obafemi-Owode local government area of Ogun State, not far from Ifo, an Industrial town in the state. 

Consequently, farm produce believde to be worth about N6.8million have been destroyed.

Vanguard reports that the herdsmen also inflicted machete cut on one of the workers, who was receiving treatment at a hospital as at the time of this filing this report.

Mrs. Roseline Ogege, the farm owner, while speaking with newsmen in Abeokuta earlier Wednesday, narrated her ordeal in the hands of the herdsmen, declaring that the herdsmen were Fulani who had a camp close to her farmland.

We planted hybrid species obtained from an agricultural institute in Ibadan which has six month gestation period. And we spent N6.8 million to put up the farm,” Mrs. Ogege said, while lamenting her losses.

She also lamented that suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded the farmland and their cattle ate up all the cassava sticks planted on the four hectres of land.

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