A Fulani herdsman has been sent to jail in Ekiti State, Nigeria, for the crime of intentionally driving his cattle to feed on a large farm and, therenby, destroying it completely.

This happened on Friday, January 6, at a magistrate's court in Ado Ekiti, capital of Ekiti state, Nigeria.

A Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti has ordered the remand of a herdsman, Abdulahi Abubakar, in prison custody for allegedly conspiring with others, who are now at large, to werck havoc to a farm valued at N1.2 million.

The case was brought before the court by police prosecutor, Sgt. Caleb Leranmo who revealed that the accused and others at large committed the offense on December 4 at about 5:00pm at Itapaji-Iyemero in Ikole-Ekiti.

The prosecutor that the accused conspired together to commit an offence to wit malicious damage, punishable under Section 7 of Cattle and other Ruminants Grazing, Ekiti State Law 2016.

This case is the first of its kind in the whole of Nigeria, which has suffered terribly from the menace of now fearless Fulani Herdsmen ever since their kinsman, Nigeria's current president Buhari assumed power.

This case, the first of its kind in Nigeria, is not made possible by any move on part of the federal government, that government has been perfectly useless in this regard, but the fearlessness and open defiance of the governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose, is what is at work here. He forced the above bill through in his state, right under the nose of the president and other cowardly politicians like the governor of Benue state who sat and watched as the Fulani Herdsmen wiped out whole sections of his state in commando style, areas comprising several farming tribes,

The prosecutor insisted firmly that the accused, on the said date, with others still at large, did unlawfully rear cows into the large yam farm belonging to one Emmanuel Augustine and destroyed the farm which has a mean market value of N1.2 million.

The accused, who has decided to wait for the return of President Buhari,,his kinsman and would-be protector who is away in Ghana attending to the important business of representing Nigeria at the inauguration of Ghana's new president, pleaded not guilty, and his counsel, Miss Oluwasayo Ayomide sharply applied for his bail, but, thank God, was opposed by the police prosecutor.

The prosecutor actually stated openly that the offense was too rampant and also it would enable the police to arrest others involved in the crime. The Nigerian police could be your friend after all!

In his judgement, Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye refused to grant bail and consequently remanded the accused in prison custody.

He adjourned the case to Jan.13 for further hearing.

In a rapidly failing economy where the cost of food has risen by 350%, still climbing, the government does nothing when Fulani herdsmen lead their cows fearlessly onto farmland and destroy in minutes, that which took months of toil to build. Where the farmers protest in any manner, these cattle breeding criminals kill them off in primitive commando style or the Army and DSS move in like in parts of the southeast where retaliating village farmers were arrested in droves.

If the cows, which are not even made cheaply available for the consumption of hungry Nigerians, if these cows leave grass to eat the food meant for people with the apparent approval of the federal government who can't produce even one jailed Fulani herdsman for all the terrible crimes committed , what exactly does this government have in mind for the people to eat?

How exactly do the government propose to solve the problem of a hungry nation with a population in the hundreds of millions?

Food for human thought and not for cows!


http://www.kingezesblog.com/2017/01/at-last-fulani-herdsman-is-set-to-see.html

Interesting

Faryose is the only governor with balls in the whole non Fulani territories in this country

Some people in Abuja wouldn't like this.

right judgement.

Nobody is bove the law.

finally... justice must be done

Our Government will respond to this that what is happening is Southern Kaduna because it concern their brother