Kogi Farmers Protest Farms’ Destruction By Suspected Herdsmen
Hundreds of farmers from the Egbe community in Kogi State have protested against the incessant destruction of their farmlands and crops by herdsmen. The protesters called on the state government to intervene now in order to avoid the breakdown of law and order. The spokesman for the farmers, Wale Oti said the way and manner in which crops waiting for harvest were being destroyed was unbearable. The protest, became necessary because of last Sunday’s total destruction of their farmlands and crops that were ready for harvest. Oti stated that the farmers had been enduring incessant destruction of their farmlands for years, but noted that the situation became worse when the Kogi State Government gave the herdsmen a warm reception and allowed them to settle in the community in droves. “Several reports have been made to the Elegbe of Egbe, asking him to caution the herdsmen, and we are making another one to further buttress our bitterness and pain about what the herdsmen are doing to us.”