Herdsmen Destroy N6.8m Farm, Injure Farm Worker

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Herdsmen have invaded another four hectres of land in Likosi-Alabata village in Papalanto in Obafemi-Owode local government area of Ogun State and destroyed farm produce worth N6.8million.
The herdsmen also reportedly inflicted matchet cut on one of the workers who has been hospitalised. The farm owner, Mrs. Roseline Ogege while speaking with newsmen in Abeokuta, Wednesday, narrated her ordeal in the hands of the herdsmen, declared that the herdsmen were Fulani who had a camp close to her farmland. Ogege said that she planted hybrid species obtained from an agricultural institute in Ibadan which has six month gestation period, saying,she has spent N6.8 million to put up the farm. She however, lamented that suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded the farmland and ate up all the cassava sticks planted on the four hectres of land.

 

Source: Vanguard