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People can't go to farms, yet all the politicians are cramming to APC. Let me rob it in their eyes, I don't see Tinubu beyond 2027.

She married the original father.

Aku odun Keresimesi.

Several farmers who spoke to SaharaReporters narrated how repeated attacks, kidnappings, and ransom payments pushed them out of farming entirely.



Fear has taken over farmlands across parts of Kwara State, forcing many local farmers to abandon agriculture, their lifelong source of livelihood, and turn instead to commercial motorcycle riding, popularly known as okada, in a desperate bid to stay alive.

Patigi and Ifelodun local government areas, once-thriving farming communities, are now dotted with deserted fields, overgrown crops, and stories of terror that residents say the government has failed to confront.

Several farmers who spoke to SaharaReporters narrated how repeated attacks, kidnappings, and ransom payments pushed them out of farming entirely.

For many, the final straw was being kidnapped on their own land.

“I am no longer a farmer by choice. Fear chased me away,” said Sadiku, a middle-aged farmer from Patigi who has now joined the swelling ranks of okada riders in Ilorin.

“The last time they kidnapped me, they took me from my farm. They knew where I was because they had been watching us,” he added.

Sadiku said his family was forced to sell his farmland to raise money for ransom after he was held for days in the forest.

“They beat me and told me to call my people. We sold the land my father gave me just to bring me back alive. How do you go back to that same farm again?” he asked.

Another farmer from Ifelodun told SaharaReporters that farming has become a “death sentence” in rural Kwara, as armed men now freely operate around farmlands, particularly during planting and harvesting seasons

“We used to leave home early and return late from the farm,” he said.

“Now, if you go there, you are going to meet kidnappers, not crops. They come with guns. Sometimes they wear charms. Sometimes they tell you straight that if you don’t pay, you will not leave the forest alive.”

He added that after his abduction, his family sold his cassava and maize farm to raise ransom money, leaving him with nothing to return to.

“I lost my freedom, I lost my land, and I lost my dignity,” he said quietly. “Today, I ride okada in Ilorin. It is not what I planned for my life.”

A third farmer said the decision to abandon farming was not about profit but survival.

“I would rather struggle on a motorcycle in town than die on my farm,” he said. “At least on okada, if you see danger, you can turn back. On the farm, you are trapped.”

Residents say insecurity in Patigi and Ifelodun has worsened over the years, with little visible response from security agencies. Farmers allege that kidnappers now treat rural communities as easy hunting grounds, knowing that response time from authorities is slow or nonexistent.

“When you cry for help, nobody comes,” one farmer said. “By the time soldiers or police hear, they will say they don’t know the forest. But the kidnappers know every corner.”

The shift from farming to okada riding is already having ripple effects. Local food production has dropped sharply, residents say, worsening food scarcity and driving up prices in local markets.

Young men who once cultivated rice, maize, and yam now cluster at motor parks, risking accidents and police harassment just to earn daily bread.



https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/19/farming-death-sentence-now-insecurity-kidnappings-force-kwara-farmers-turn-okada-riding

I hope we will not have police just to satisfy someone's ego to America and Europe.

Tinubu knows he is not SINCERE with all his policies, especially this tax bills. No nation tax people to prosperity.

kalaye:
Nigeria my country,here in Algeria everything is cheap oil and gas

Some 30k jobbees, will tell you things are cheapest in Nigeria.

Bunkering and smuggling enjoy. Some parastatals have not paid minium wage.

Oseni Olarewanju, welcome on board, our next veepee will be Yoruba from Kwara or Kogi, aferall we are north.

Buhari was a waste, we warned, but you have people like suraju,who claimed to be intelligent supporting this fraud. Sometimes I pity innocent people suffering, but I don't pity most youth who see truth, but can't decipher.

Reason they don't have money for even capital projects. I welcome you to tax year of our Lord 2026.

You don't understand basic truth, no one is buying our crude. Buhari will not use entire crude, some are meant for refinery, some meant to be sold. Go and read about how crude are appropriated.

God will definitely do. I laugh at people when they think they are building. Let me leave it at that, Tinubu is not beyond 2027.

Even if APC have 36 states, Tinubu is not beyond 2027.

We APC members will take everyone involved to court. Our small lion is there. I dont see BAT beyond 2027.

Won fi enyan je lemonmu, otun du Seriki, Nlfpmod, let me just go and sleep.

Egbon, that is the new Awujale of Ijebu, court will give it to him. Agemo merindinlogun ma jade saa.

Nlfpmod, how powerful is this boko haram killers.

No comments.

The abduction occurred on Wednesday evening along the notorious Kamuya village–Buni Yadi road, a stretch long associated with insurgent attacks and mass kidnappings in the North-East.

Suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists have abducted the newly elected Vice Chairman of Biu Local Government Area of Borno State, Alhaji Saidu, alongside two councillors and several other passengers, according to reports.

The abduction occurred on Wednesday evening along the notorious Kamuya village–Buni Yadi road, a stretch long associated with insurgent attacks and mass kidnappings in the North-East.

Sources told a counterinsurgency source, Zagazola Makama that the victims were travelling to Maiduguri after participating in the local government elections conducted last Saturday when their convoy was intercepted by the terrorists.

“Yes, our newly elected Vice Chairman in the last Saturday local government polls, Alhaji Saidu, and two councillors representing Zarawuyaku and Miringa wards of Biu Local Government Area were abducted by suspected ISWAP terrorists between Kamuya village and Buni Yadi road,” one of the sources said.

According to the sources, the attackers did not stop at abducting the politicians alone but also seized passengers from other vehicles plying the road at the time of the attack.

They said a Hisbah vehicle travelling from Potiskum in Yobe State was intercepted, while passengers in a Jamatul Nasrul Islam (Yan Agaji) vehicle heading to Biu were also abducted.

“They were abducted alongside some unidentified passengers travelling in a Jamatul Nasrul Islam vehicle en route from Potiskum town of Yobe State to Biu. One of the councillors abducted was the immediate past vice chairman of Biu Local Government,” the source disclosed.

https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/18/boko-haram-terrorists-abduct-newly-elected-biu-vice-chairman-councillors-passengers

Youth defending those STEALING their futures.

How can you open what was not closed. Some 30k jobbees were defending no insecurity. I dont think December is feasible, who will release his or her ward during festive period. It will be January, 2026.

It is their way, forceful, anywhere they are peace elude the place.

Rubber stamps. Just ja ni ote li a tie ka.

He has beaten Wike to this, have you heard his noise again.

Newcastle vs Chelsea 20 December, 2025 1:30pm.

Transfer window officially opened.

Tinubu is just fighting lost cause, he is not beyond 2027.

Nlfpmod, are we going to eat data.

There will still be glitches.

Wasiu ni won ma fi je oba, Ijebu Alare.