According to report reaching oyogist.com, the hundreds of Kogi farmers have taken to the street to protest the destruction of their farmlands by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
The Kogi Farmers Association spokesman Wale Oti told newsmen that the the incessant destruction of their crops and farmlands by the Fulani herdsmen was unbearable.
The protest was mainly demonstrated in the Egbe community of the state, a community which serves as a boundary between Kogi and Kwara state.
According to Oti; “Indigenous farmers, who had been labouring since the beginning of the rainy season and were optimistic of having something to harvest, got to their farms on Sunday morning to see the total destruction of their farms due to overgrazing.”
“Several reports have been made to the Elegbe of Egbe, Oba Ayo Irukera, 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.”
