Old And Young Women Protest In Rivers Community, Demand End To Farm Destruction By Herdsmen


They had on several occasions sought the intervention of the DSS, Joint Task Force Area Command and the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in the area but nothing has changed.


No fewer than 200 women in the Ogba-Egbema-Andoni Council of Rivers State have protested against the invasion of their farmlands by herdsmen.
They are angered by the destruction caused by the herdsmen and their cattle on their farms.
 
Displaying placards, the aggrieved women blocked the gate of the council headquarters at Omoku, demanding that herdsmen should vacate their farmlands.



One of the placards reads: “We are afraid of going to the farm. Life is difficult now.”
 
The women leader of Obirikom in the Usonmi Clan of the council, Isiodu Nkeiruka stated that residents have suffered untold oppression from herders.
She lamented the destruction caused by herders on their farmlands for the past seven to eight years.


She noted that they had on several occasions sought the intervention of the council chairman, Department of State Services (DSS), Joint Task Force Area Command and the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in the area but that nothing has changed.



According to her, the quantity of cassava they now harvest has reduced due to the activities of herdsmen.
She stressed that they now produce less than a basin of garri because cattle usually destroy their cassava, along with other crops.
 
Nkeiruka described farming as their major means of livelihood, adding that it is what Ogba people are known for.
 
“Herdsmen have been going to our farms, destroying our yams and other crops. They have been terrorising and killing us with knives and guns and raping our women. Enough is enough, even if you do not eat garri or cassava, your children and mothers do.
 
“We plead with the federal and state governments to assist us because we do not want to be tagged lazy, just as President Muhammadu Buhari once tagged Nigerian youths as lazy,” she said.
 
Also speaking, the local government chairman, Vincent Job, described the herdsmen menace as a very disturbing situation in the community.
 
Citing the example of a girl that was beaten brutally, he narrated how herdsmen have been destroying their farm produce and causing them pain.
He called on the Nigerian government to assist, as the people do not want to take the law into their hands.
 
“We hate the activities of the herdsmen. We plead with the federal and state governments to assist us in cautioning the herdsmen. We do not like the way they operate in our area, but we do not want to take the law into our hands,” he said.


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Mehn!

Unfortunately,...WIKE may have exchanged those farmlands for his vice presidencial project,.... your wailings may be in vain.

ah ah! under wike's nose?

Biafra is the solution. don't worry umu nwanyi Biafra.... Biafra is coming.

If they were welcoming they would have had ESN patrolling their bushes. Enjoy your new Fulani neighbors.

When Fulani heardsmen never reach South South, dem dey always claim commando


Is not easy to fight Fulani heardsmen. You can never protect your farm land 24/7, except you go pay person wey go dey look after the farm 24/7.

Nah night dem dey mostly com use their cows destroy people's farmlands.

When them wan attack too, nah for night. Is going to be a very fast attack. Before Una fiy organise Unaself, dem go don move.

DubaiLandLord:
When Fulani heardsmen never reach South South, dem dey always claim commando


Is not easy to fight Fulani heardsmen. You can never protect your farm land 24/7, except you go pay person wey go dey look after the farm 24/7.

Nah night dem dey mostly com use their cows destroy people's farmlands.

When them wan attack too, nah for night. Is going to be a very fast attack. Before Una fiy organise Unaself, dem go don move.

Ma gee

Shut up there and stop embracing yourself...
After you try to make sense you ends up making no sense.....


@Ablejesus

come and defend this one......
Abi you dey tell me to stop surpporting IPOB so that fulanis will take our lands...

You fulani terrorist hidden under an anonymous site nairaland to comment shiit...

Igbos are not fools... We know our true enemies.. we know what you fulanis knows....


God will continue to bless IPOB and ESN.. God bless MNK and the igbos...

Staypositive:



Ma gee

Shut up there and stop embracing yourself...
After you try to make sense you ends up making no sense.....


I just hope the fulanis are not terrorising igbos speaking communities in Rivers because igbos knows the language the fulanis understand.....

Lol

You wan go do rubbish in Wike state? I hope you won't join the UGM in formenting trouble in Rivers sha? Go ask people of oyigbo how it ends up for them