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The multi-million Naira research and training farms of the University of Ilorin have been destroyed and dam polluted by grazing cattle on the campus, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem has stated.
In a weekly Bulletin issued on Monday, the university noted that various economic trees’ plantations were destroyed by cattle illegally grazing on lands within the campus.
The issuance of the Bulletin followed a security meeting between the university management and the leaders of the 11 Fulani settlements on the University land, Thursday. The meeting comes after the University authority first issued a quit notice to the illegal settlers on April 26, 2017 which was never complied with.
At the meeting, the University Vice-Chancellor warned that the institution would no longer condone grazing by cattle on the university lands, urging illegal settlers in the university to quit.
The Bulletin quotes the institution as stating that 28 persons- Fulani herdsmen, Yoruba and Hausa farmers, were on May 11, 2017, arraigned before an Ilorin Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly trespassing into the University land, thereby destroying the school’s plantation and carrying out unauthorised acts.
According to the management, the accused persons had poisoned the institution’s dam with chemicals as well as engaged in illegal felling of economic trees from which they made charcoal.
Chairman, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Usman Adamu, revealed that the herdsmen engaged in destruction of the farms were not resident within the university, adding that other ethnic groups have embarked on illegal activities like logging.
In attendance at the meeting were representatives of law enforcement agencies – the Nigerian Police Force, the Department of State Security Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
Source: Agro Nigeria
agronigeria.com.ng/grazing-cattle-destroy-varsitys-research-farms-pollute-dam/


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