Despite warning from various social cultural groups in the Southwestern region, the deadly terror group, Fulani herdsmen has spread their activities to a village in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, destroying cassava farm produce worth the sum of N6.8 million.
Inside Sources gathered that the herdsmen who claimed four of their cows went missing stormed the four-hectare cassava farm in Likosi-Alabata village in Papalanto area of Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, destroyed the produce and inflicted machete cuts on one of the workers, who is now in the hospital in revenge for their missing cows.
Mrs Roseline Ogege, the owner of the farm who hinted that the herdsmen have a camp close to her farmland said she had spent over N6.8 million to get hybrid species of cassava sticks with six-month gestation period from an agricultural institute in Ibadan, lamenting that the cattle ate up all she planted on the four hectares of land.
Ogege while narrating her ordeal said “My workers went to the farm at Likosi Alabata village in Papalanto to check the farm as usual. But they met herdsmen with their cattle on the farm. The cattle ate all the cassava sticks and when the herders saw my workers, they chased them out of the farmland. As they were running, one of them was caught and attacked with machetes. We reported the matter at Itori Police Station and were given one Investigating Police Officer to follow us to the farm and examine the level of damage.”
