Alayi, a community in Bende Local Government Area, Abia State, has been thrown into pandemonium following the return of Fulani Herdsmen to their community two months after allegedly being paid 700,000 naira over two missing cows.

A video sent to Vantage News by a native of the community, who chose to remain anonymous, shows women of Alayi lamenting over the return of the herdsmen to their community despite being warned to keep off following the first incident where the herdsmen complained that they lost two of their cows in the community.

Watch video of the Alayi women protest below:

Illustrious sons of the community are said to have collectively contributed the sum paid to the herdsmen as a way of placating them and to avoid clashes.

In the video, one of the women speaking in Alayi dialect said, “our anger is that we paid 700k to them, thinking that they will never come back as they promised but this time around they came back in large number, destroying our farms and stealing our corns.”

“We cant even go to harvest our crops right now because they have taken over our farms. our children are hungry and we have nothing to feed them with” she lamented.

Another aggrieved woman in the video said, “we want the government to hear our cry and to immediately come to our aid because we have been chased out of our farms. We don’t want them in our farmlands because we don’t feel safe and our crops are destroyed whenever they are around”

The community is predominantly made up of farmers who rely on their farm produce to survive.

According to the protesting women, the matter had been reported to the leaders of the town union and but nothing concrete has come out of it.

Watch the video of the protesting women in the source of the story below:

https://vantagenews.ng/2020/07/29/exclusive-fulani-herdsmen-refused-to-leave-our-farms-after-collecting-700k-compensation-over-missing-cows-abia-community-video/

Sad situation. A nation where the masses are at the mercy of rampaging herdsmen, yet there are security forces tasked with ensuring safety...

Can we press RESET BUTTON in this country

Sad... farmers are now at the mercy of herders! A time will come when farmers will pay them heavily to gain access to their farms before they are allowed to plant and harvest if care is not taken. I just hope the SW Amotekun will not be compromised because it should be fire for fire, juju for juju. It is well

Buharrriiiiii.

I no fit believe wetin I just read....on biafra soil.

I have seen and read worse in this country.
There was a country!

donbachi:
I no fit believe wetin I just read....on biafra soil.

The Fulani tribe will regret what they're doing now afterwards. They'll become endangered species, and a cry for mercy/acceptance will be totally ignored

Bumper to Bumper.
The country don tire person I swear!

backnbeta:
Sad... farmers are now at the mercy of herders! A time will come when farmers will pay them heavily to gain access to their farms before they are allowed to plant and harvest if care is not taken. I just hope the SW Amotekun will not be compromised because it should be fire for fire, juju for juju. It is well

Most likely the cattle-herding terrorists had been trained to LIE about missing cows, so as to extort "compensation" over imaginary losses of cattle that never existed in the first place, further victimizing the very communities whose farms the invaders actively destroyed with their rampaging herds of diseased cows.

Predictably, after collecting a king's ransom from the farming community whose crops they intentionally destroyed, the killer herdsmen returned to the SAME location, to dare anyone that might be careless enough to show anger out in the farmland where there might be no witnesses, so that the invaders can do what they do best - massacre people with cutlasses.

In Ghana, stray cows, or cows seen invading farms, are shot on sight by responding police officers. The meat from such dead trespassing cattle, is butchered and distributed to charitable organizations, while the owners of such errant cattle are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, on charges ranging from criminal trespass, to murder, as applicable. Hopefully this policy will one day be adopted by other African nations including Nigeria

It is really sad that these things keep happening in a country that pretends to have a government. The government has failed the people and they are now left to protect themselves.

community should ban eating of cow meat for 4 years.