Herders Almost Kill Man With Machetes On His Farm In Imo For Complaining About Destruction Of Crops By Cattle

A middle-aged man has been badly cut with machetes by armed men suspected to be herdsmen in Imo State.

Although SaharaReporters could not immediately ascertain the location where the incident happened, a video of the incident seen by SaharaReporters on Tuesday, shows the injured middle-aged man in a hospital facility.

It was gathered that the man was nearly killed because he asked the herders to leave his farm because their cattle were destroying his crops.

The video also shows that the bloodied man was on his head, arms and neck.

A voice in the video says the man was attacked on his farm by “Fulani herdsmen”.

"The man was attacked by Fulani herdsmen. We thank God that he was brought to the hospital on time. You can see the deep cuts they gave him in the neck, head and arms. With this, you tell that they had the intention to kill him."

Meanwhile, efforts made by SaharaReporters to get the reaction of the spokesman for the state police command, ASP Henry Okoye were unsuccessful as he did not answer his calls.

He had also not replied to the text message sent to him at the time of filing this report.

Source: https://saharareporters.com/2024/01/30/herders-almost-kill-man-machetes-his-farm-imo-complaining-about-destruction-crops-cattle

I thought there are no more armed Fulani Herdsmen in the East. What is happening?

Hope Uzodinma is nowhere to be seen after his second-term inauguration.

That herder is a gonner...if u know the east very well.

That man is already dead.


Small time now you will hear, he is very sick, after that obituary.



That herdsmen just made it hell for other fulani in SE zone now.

The herder won't excape so long as the Man survived

Nice2023:
That herder is a gonner...if u know the east very well.

Between this week and last week alone, almost 5 people have been killed in the East with several kidnapping.

Na only mouth people like you dey make online while terrorists continue to wreak havoc.

Sorry man. Fulani and ibos are friends there shouldn't be fight in anyways

Salewa97:
Anambra, imo, Ekiti.

FG should ban Open grazing patapata and allow state to treat the fk of these Fulani herdsmen once and for all.

If you are waiting for the FG to protect you against these murderers they will kill everyone. The communities should as a matter of self preservation device their own means of keeping them at bay.

OMG.

PureFace1:
Where are those gloating over attacks in the west ? they have crawled back into their holes, typical cowards.

You are unlikely to see them here, the well-being of aSWners is far more important to them.

ElSudani:


If you are waiting for the FG to protect you against these murderers they will kill everyone. The communities should as a matter of self preservation device their own means of keeping them at bay.

Yes but that won’t solve the problem. We’ve had communities killing herdmen back too but then they come back again then they kill them, then they come back again.

You cannot police a country like that and having different militias everywhere have never truly solved the problem because when there is no herdsmen left to kill, they turnaround to start perpetrating injustice against their own people.

So far you have herdmen grazing on farm protected by the law, you’ll have this issue. When you kill one, 200 others are on another farm, it’s hard to mud all because they will keep coming since the law allow them.

There need to be government will that will ban open grazing and give the full
backing to enforce it. At that point, anyone caught grazing cow on any farmland is an official terrorist.

Terrorist are inhuman so when people kill them, they feel no guilt conscience. Then all those state paramilitary can then have justification to clear this menace once and for all.

Salewa97:


Yes but that won’t solve the problem. We’ve had communities killing herdmen back too but then they come back again then they kill them, then they come back again.

You cannot police a country like that and having different militias everywhere have never truly solved the problem because when there is no herdsmen left to kill, they turnaround to start perpetrating injustice against their own people.

So far you have herdmen grazing on farm protected by the law, you’ll have this issue. When you kill one, 200 others are on another farm, it’s hard to mud all because they will keep coming since the law allow them.

There need to be government will that will ban open grazing and give the full
backing to enforce it. At that point, anyone caught grazing cow on any farmland is an official terrorist.

Terrorist are inhuman so when people kill them, they feel no guilt conscience. Then all those state paramilitary can then have justification to clear this menace once and for all.

Unfortunately, this has been going on for a very long time now and none of these nice ideas you are talking about is being done while people die everyday.
We don't want to wait until when there's no one to protect anymore.

ElSudani:


Unfortunately, this has been going on for a long time now and none of these nice ideas you are talking about is being done while people die everyday.
We don't want to wait until when there's no one to protect anymore.

It’s not being done because no president have had the balls to actually do it.

My stance is not rigid on this topic. Non-state actors can continue to use any local means to quench these menace as they’ve always done. I am not against it at this juncture.

But I just think for this to end to a favorable level, the president need to grow some balls and declare once and for all what need to be done.

—If OBJ fail to do it because he thinks the North made him
—Yar’adua because he did not live long
—Jonathan because he is a weakling
—Buhari because it is his people
—Tinubu have no reason not to do this because he is strong and has less tag of “they made me”. We are watching what Tinubu will do.

PureFace1:
Where are those gloating over attacks in the west ? they have crawled back into their holes, typical cowards.

fake news, even Fulani police and army are scared of walking around with their uniforms on because they will be taken out immediately.

More all less a herdsman. At this time and age in imo that is a old story.

Anything to make you people from the west have orgasm from bad news concerning the east.

Sahara reporters cannot verify the exact place.

You they whine me abi?

Jeyun:
fake news, even Fulani police and army are scared of walking around with their uniforms on because they will be taken out immediately.

More all less a herdsman. At this time and age in imo that is a old story.

Anything to make you people from the west have orgasm from bad news concerning the east.

Sahara reporters cannot verify the exact place.

You they whine me abi?

yeah typical Fulani slaves you must defend your Fulani masters

BloomingDale:
I thought there are no more armed Fulani Herdsmen in the East. What is happening?

E shock you ba

BloomingDale:
I thought there are no more armed Fulani Herdsmen in the East. What is happening?

Imo is part of Fulani conquered territory courtesy of Uzor ndi njor 🤓

If you report to Tinubu, he will ask you 'where are the cows?'.

APC government is a cancer. They should ban and start arresting herdsmen roaming with animals in public or other peoples farm.

Saint UGM pls do the needful.

Fake news
This happened in ogbomoso

This country

Fake news
Where are the ESN?

Maize247:
Sorry man. Fulani and ibos are friends there shouldn't be fight in anyways

And this is true

This is crazy, we nor dey safe again o.

This is criminal

Ezewuzie01:
This is bad. I hope some frustrated Igbos who rejoice whenever such misfortune happen in the west or north can have a rethink because the east is not immune. Fulani marauders are on rampage everywhere and there is need to stamp them out. Forest guards in Enugu state that Ugwuanyi formed isn't working because Fulani are kidnapping constantly in Enugu state. A new strategy to flush out Fulani from the bushes nationwide has to be adopted.

True again

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