About 3,000 women farmers in Ebonyi have staged a massive protest against the rampaging Fulani herdsmen in the southeast state.

Vanguard reports that the women, largely elderly ones, who are from Ishiagu community on Friday, September 9, staged a peaceful protest to the palace of their traditional ruler, HRH Ezego Moses Ngele.

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Ebonyi women are angry that their crops are being destroyed by Fulani herdsmen after working so hard.
They were protesting against the destruction of farm crops by the herdsmen.

Spokesperson for the group, Mrs Janet Aja said the women were registering their displeasure over the destruction of their crops by herdsmen that graze their cattle on their crops.

She expressed concern that the farmers may have nothing to harvest.

She said: “The women are in your palace to inform you that our crops and farm lands are destroyed daily by cattle rearers and that we no longer go to our farms for fear of being attacked, raped or killed.

“Our rice, yams, cassava and other crops in our farms have all been destroyed and eaten up by their cattle.



Ebonyi governor, David Umahi has had his hands full trying to find a a way out of Fulani herdsmen attacks in the state
“We demand urgent action from you as the community father to end the indiscriminate destruction of crops and farm lands by these foreigners.

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