There is tension in Taraba State as armed herdsmen and their cattle allegedly occupied and completely destroyed over 750 hectares of a rice farm in Dubale Village of Lau Local Government Area, cultivated by Wal-Wanne Nigeria Limited.

Alhaji Muhammed Musa, the company’s farm coordinator, in a press briefing on Wednesday in Jalingo, lamented that the rice farm had yielded well and harvest was about to commence when the herdsmen brought in about 2,000 cows to occupy and destroy it.

Musa appealed to security operatives to help in arresting the armed herdsmen so as to bring them to book which will serve as a deterrent to others.
He called on the government to compensate the company and other affected farmers in the area in order to keep the hope of ensuring food security alive.
“As a company, we have been farming rice in many states of the federation but we have never witnessed a destruction of this magnitude.
“I am so surprised at the manner in which armed herdsmen move about destroying farms in the state.
Mustapha Mohammed, the farm supervisor, lamented that their dreams of ranking among the highest rice producing companies in the country had been thwarted by the activities of the herdsmen.
He said the much-needed peace and development would continue to elude the country until the authorities summoned the political will to address the menace of herdsmen.

Deputy farm coordinator of the company, Alhaji Adamu Haruna also lamented that herders and cattle were still destroying farms despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s directives to Nigerians to embrace farming.

source: Punch

Armed herdsmen?

I think by now, they should be officially recognised a detachment of the armed forces with full privileges.

But we shall send them back into their shitholes from FailBuhari 2019

Hehehe hahaha Buhari is working

Terrible! I wonder why security operatives didn't intervene. Yet we're encouraging farming.
It will take at least some hours to destroy a farm that large.

A long way for agriculture to succeed in this country.

So this people remain free killing anyhow without any to question them till date?

This is one of the reason poverty and hunger is escalating in Nigeria , Buhari and his herdsmen will not allow minority farmers to harvest their yield, they attack the farmers , scare them from farms and eat their produce which is glaringly a form of sytematic ethnic cleansing aimed at starving the local population out of their lands...it can never be well with Buhari

This is wickedness na

We must lease our farms, lands and food to our beloved counterparts and their cows to feed.

Government should not waste money compensating the farmer or company, the government should rather catch the cows, sell them, remove the money for their inconveniences and give the farmer the rest. If the money from the cows is not enough to compensate for the damages, then the herders should be arrested and imprisoned till next year to work for the farmer till the money is raised. If not the third option should be life imprisonment.

Army and co will not act now When the people rise in anger and the slaughter cows and their handlers they will come out and start killing innocent farmers. Femi Adesina will still come and say they should hand over lands to herders so that herders will not kill them, encouraging/enabling criminals and murderers in the name of governance.

After wasting 75 Christians in Kaduna, their boys went to abuja to massacre peace Shiites, now their freedom fighters are in Taraba grabbing land. APC and tears, it shall never be well with them