A community leader in Ondo state, Owolafe Folorunsho, has recently narrated to The Cable News, how armed herdsmen have been allegedly attacking their community at the Arimogija and Molege axis of Ose Local Government Area of Ondo state.
Folorunsho said that the herdsmen usually invade their farmlands in the night, uproot their farm produce to feed their cows. He added that, sometimes, these herdsmen will invade their community in daytime, force them to their farm and asked them to harvest their Cassava to feed their cows.
Folorunsho also said that the herdsmen recently carried out a deadly attack where they allegedly killed some people, burnt cars and houses. He said that the herdsmen launched the attack as a reprisal after the community complained about their activities to the police.
Folorunsho said: “The herders have continued to invade our farmlands at night, harvest our crops to feed their cows, and on many occasions, they will come during the day, forced us to uproot the cassava by ourselves at gunpoint, command us to cut them into pieces to feed their cows.”
“In order not to take laws into our hands, we reported this act of economic sabotage to the appropriate authority who took prompt action to chase them out of the farming areas only for the Fulanis to come back and attacked us with AK-47, pump action, axes, and cutlasses and killed our people at night.”
The community leader mentioned that the herdsmen laid an ambush on some traders who were coming from Akure after which they reportedly killed all the occupants before taking their money and setting their car ablaze.
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