You can call me anything, it's a faceless forum but I'm not faceless while you are. It is my investment while I've not written anything about virtue, you don't know me enough to call me weak and even if you know me, you can't know me more than myself.
MR MIDE.,weldooe over your patience.i farm and do goats too, i can relate with d pains of the farmers sir, u would need to culture your animals, food prices has gone up partly because fulanis have all invaded most of our lands up north and thats quite painful,pls do whatever u can to get fence .ensure u guide your animals away from peoples farm yard,they wont spare your animals o!their cross are as important to them just as your animals are.animals can be very destructive,that am sure u have come to realise now right ?
CallmeTrinity: You are a coward , weak man and a coward 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Foolish man confusing fear with spiritual advise. That was your cowardice talking ... Weak willed coward 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
You are a so weak and a coward. You know who is killing your flock and you are too much of a coward to defend your investment 🤣
Even the Nigerian law recodnizes self defense. The moment someone steps foot on your property and is killed the law recodnizes your right to defend your life and properly and won't persecute you so you are talking.trash..
You are just a coward who has been bullied and his investments wiped off because you are too weak and cowardly to pick up a machete and lay a trap...
Foolish man ,trying hard to make his cowardice look like a virtue ..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why do you through your dignity to some dogs who know nothing of this life? Why engage nonentities that will still masturbate on a thread if you were dead? You need not respond to kids and empty headed youths with ambition within them. No plans to be successful, no business ideas to their Monika other than being vile humans who take pleasure in misleading and stoking anger in people who have done well for themselves. Pls take care of your business to the best of your abilities. I'm so angry that you were trying to debate kids that are being fed by their COWARD parents. You will only be a COWARD if you went and attack them. Take that to bank and have peace.
Fear prevents crime and evil. What you did wasn't the right way to tackle your issue. If what the person did was genue or not a warning is the least you can do. The fact that after causing the death of your cattles, there were no consequences means the person will likely do it again.
If you want to play it safe, then you need camera to have evidence of the act. With that, you will go to court and the person will pay for damages. Even the police has no reason to arrest the person since there isn't any evidence.
So it's either you confront the person with a well planned advantageous strategy or you cowardly seat still and do nothing.
My advise to you Sir get Shepherd dogs and don’t buy them from puppies buy the matured and well trained ones, you could buy German shepherds or kangals, Caucasian shepherds etc and buy up to 3 so that they can work in tandem , I laid emphasis in well trained because from the death of your previous puppies they were poisoned also so you need to buy the ones that can only eat when you give them food in a particular plate not from the floor only doing this would save your ranch from wild animals and humans disturbing your investment
Bobbiee: Oga please don't disturb us with your problems again. If you're not ready to 1. Get the police involved or hire a detective 2. Install security dogs, warning motion sensors around the perimeter of your premises, or install covert CCTV cameras 3. Hold meeting with the village council to find out the source of the problem and see if it's something that can be addressed. Maybe the town would contribute money to buy back your farm and properties or they'll find the root cause of the problem and address it.
Stop crying on social media and expecting us to solve your problem. You're the only on that can solve it yourself.
Everything you mentioned don't come cheap while they are top of our priority. The last time Halima Abubakar cried like this on social media, you people donated over 2.5m
okoroemeka: how can he be a coward when his animals are destroying other people's farms?if you must go before equity go with clean hands,if the the animals are secured there will never be any problem,I am a farmer and our host community called a stakeholders meeting on 2 January reading the riot act that farmers have been given permission to shoot on sight any cow,goat or sheep grazing on their land,that edict is enough for everybody to secure their animals,moreover the DPO was right,if he used that Cutlass and killed the guy he will spend the rest of his life in ikoyi or kirikiri prison.
This is a case of do me i do you.come to think of it, their pepper farms your animals were grazing was The means of their livelihood just as your animals were to you how can you be destroying their own to make your own fatter even with a flisy excuse
All those calling you a weak man i think they are an aboki.
Jollos: U are a coward true true. Am sorry to tell you that, but is the fact. The day I caught one guy stealing my pig, the kind beating I gave him, if he steal again in his life, then is not ordinary eye.
Except u stole ur investment money and is nothing to u if everything is gone while u fold ur hand and watch.
Life is a battle, is either u won or u loose.
Is your pig located in the thick middle of the forest? Do you stay alone keeping your flocks? If the answer is no then your situation cannot be likened with mine and you may actually get away with any action you took.
You can call me anything, it's a faceless forum but I'm not faceless while you are. It is my investment while I've not written anything about virtue, you don't know me enough to call me weak and even if you know me, you can't know me more than myself.
To God be the glory, if I be a weak man and coward could have a life, a verified asset, an investment and cropping up a business in a legal way, show me what a strong man like you has gotten.
oga it's true.its like you are not so good with the cutlass.i advice you to get a registered pump action.it ll be easier and some warning shots could go a very very long way to drive fear into the minds of the villagers.
fixedhollies: Well done boss… everything is not by force. I like the way you are taking it easy. Look for the strong man in the community. Buy him to your side. Let him warn those idiots on your behalf.
I would suggest adult dogs. You can keep them in cages for like a month. They would have known you well. Release them at night.
This is exactly what I'm planning, I've met with the strongest man but he's not into the affairs of maintaining order in the community so he let me on what to do, he felt sad about the occurrence, I've planned to installed 3 streetlight and a solar-powered borehole as we are installing ours in the farm but it's all cancelled. We are installing a dog cage next.
Install CCTV on the farm , it could be powered by solar panel if there is no electricity, you could be watching what's happening on your farm on your phone at anytime of the day, then get matured Rottweiler, pit bull or canecorso as your guide dogs leave the rest to God .
Mr Mide, get a Pitbull or Kangal to guide your livestocks. I consider Shepherd's as alarm dogs. Make sure to get a trainer for the Pitbull/Kangal to ensure it considers your livestocks as family, and doesn't take eatables from any human apart from you. I would help with the training but I'm in Eritrea and won't be back for a long time.
They only have to have an encounter with the aforementioned dogs and will never set foot on your farm again. Just make sure they are vaccinated for rabies. You don't want to lose a case in which you're right because of this.
Dear Farmer, pls dont fall for those guys idea and abuse. They dont have anything to loose while you got all there is to loose. Pursue your case legally. If you kill or maim anyone despite their havocs on your farm, you will spend days behind bars, possibly be inprisonned, waste your efforts and resources on your projects and become cash cow to law enforcement agents/agencies. Those are boys, reason like man and dont misbehave. It is well with you
Jollos: U are a coward true true. Am sorry to tell you that, but is the fact. The day I caught one guy stealing my pig, the kind beating I gave him, if he steal again in his life, then is not ordinary eye.
Except u stole ur investment money and is nothing to u if everything is gone while u fold ur hand and watch.
Life is a battle, is either u won or u loose.
Bros, at times things can be much more complicated than this o. The way he narrated the incidence, it's not just one person involved. How is he now going to take the whole community on and start beating everyone. He could have confronted the person, but he believes it would have descended into something big that could have led to him killing someone , something he believed isn't worth it.
My advise to you Sir get Shepherd dogs and don’t buy them from puppies buy the matured and well trained ones, you could buy German shepherds or kangals, Caucasian shepherds etc and buy up to 3 so that they can work in tandem , I laid emphasis in well trained because from the death of your previous puppies they were poisoned also so you need to buy the ones that can only eat when you give them food in a particular plate not from the floor only doing this would save your ranch from wild animals and humans disturbing your investment
kangal in Nigeria? Adult , Even if you know anyone with the puppy let me know
okoroemeka: how can he be a coward when his animals are destroying other people's farms?if you must go before equity go with clean hands,if the the animals are secured there will never be any problem,I am a farmer and our host community called a stakeholders meeting on 2 January reading the riot act that farmers have been given permission to shoot on sight any cow,goat or sheep grazing on their land,that edict is enough for everybody to secure their animals,moreover the DPO was right,if he used that Cutlass and killed the guy he will spend the rest of his life in ikoyi or kirikiri prison.
But then he offered to pay for all damages done by his herd several times and those farmers decline saying that everything's good. That's where the real problem is. There's no way you can tell us or justify the irrational behaviour of his host community to the issue, the worst part is that it's either he descends to their levels too and fight dirty or do everything by the book. He doesn't want to fight dirty, he envisaged that if he had decided to confront him it will degenerate into a bloody fight in which he'll have to kill in anger. The DPO of the community already warned him when he went to report the incidence that he shouldn't allow it to degenerate into such level as he'll be possibly charged with cold blooded murder if it does.
I read through all three threads and it is obvious Op is not taking advice. Nigerians are generally hypocrites. What Op and his animals are doing is what Fulani herdsmen are doing but I don’t see anyone blaming him for his actions.
This is not the first or second time your animals are destroying crops and you are here claiming victim.
If they insist on not collecting anything, you should have sought important people in the village to intervene and should have known they would attack you again.
Not excusing their manners but you need to look inward and see where you erred as well.
CallmeTrinity: You are a coward , weak man and a coward 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Foolish man confusing fear with spiritual advise. That was your cowardice talking ... Weak willed coward 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
You are a so weak and a coward. You know who is killing your flock and you are too much of a coward to defend your investment 🤣
Even the Nigerian law recodnizes self defense. The moment someone steps foot on your property and is killed the law recodnizes your right to defend your life and properly and won't persecute you so you are talking.trash..
You are just a coward who has been bullied and his investments wiped off because you are too weak and cowardly to pick up a machete and lay a trap...
Foolish man ,trying hard to make his cowardice look like a virtue ..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So since a man dies only once, then OP should have killed the man and go to jail thereby ending all his dreams and aspirations right?? All this keyboard warriors sef, always hiding behind the keyboard to feel funky. 😀😀😀
After the second consecutive attack on our farm and I finally decided to find time to make an official report at the police station, a piece of advice the DPO gave after being briefed about our case keep ringing on my head, his words were "Mr. Oludipe, I've read your statement and I can feel how much labour you've poured into your project and the least expected is the current happening but you have to ensure that you don't take laws into your hand once the perpetrators are caught because it's dangerous to you and your project" which I replied with, Sir, it will only take the Grace of God for me not to take laws into my hand especially if the person is caught red handed then he smiled and truly, it took the Grace of God for me not to respond after the recent biological attack on our farm.
For those who has not been following, here is the link to the initial attacks https://www.nairaland.com/7411904/could-reason-why-farm-poisoned and the series of recent attacks started probably on the 25th of December 2022 and it was a planned attack. They made sure I had left the ranch for Christmas, their village is just by the main and only road and they knew my car and could also confirm if I am on the farm since I'm the only one that currently works here aside the fact that they are our neighbors next to us and could really get close and even sneak in closer to observe our far from a few distance without being noticed, that was the ploy used when our farm was first poisoned and our only crime is our animal graze on their farm.
initially I believed they are going to be asset and thought good things about them as I even plan for the farm, with solar powered irrigation, I've imagined how our irrigation system will power our farm and their for them to remain in business especially since they are pepper farmers and earns every 5 days but only during the rainy season while they're mostly jobless in dry season. But the truth is after I got closer to them, I see how massive their envy and jealous is. They are 3 in number, one Yoruba who happens to be their leader and two cotonue boys, their leader was born in 1985 (inscription from his stomach) while the two boys should be from mid 90s. They specialises in killing, kidnapping and murdering animals that grazes on their farmland but the community is getting wider and livestock are having access to farmland that are closer and while some close lands are being used to plant cocoa which income comes like twice in year, they are perennial farmers, plant corn, pepper and some tubers. Pepper for instance can be picked and sold every 5 days for 6months - 7months and that's having more than enough money to run a family, do village big boy and smoke some Igbo steadily.
So I approached them, apologize for the encroachment of their land, requested for what to pay which they turns dow, told them about our current difficulties, begged them to be patience as we solve those difficulties and promised to settle them better as we've started settling every farmers from the proceed of logs of wood that we have. at that time, we have over 5 acres of land under a very thick forest with over an half a million naira estimate in terms of the firewood. There are 3 farmers in close proximity and settling everyone of them with good amount from the log proceed is never a problem.
So fast forward to the recent attack, I left the farm on the 24th December 2022 at around 9:15pm, reason is to ensure that my car is not seen because I envisage the attack after our animals graze again on their farm. We are in the height of dry season and we don't have a fodder yet while we can't also keep them on dried cassava peels. The shee all that had already pregnant and had never graze outside our farm are left to graze everyday while the goats graze once in every 3 days just to help their rumen remain in good ph. But to goats, plants like cassava leaves smells like the way jollof rice would smell to human. After they finished the cassava leaves on our farmland I reduced their grazing to once a week and it's always monitored, I go out with them and ensure they don't leave my sight but they are not satisfied, I never knew they've pulled a prison break on me until after the 3 day so they've grazed 2 full day outside the guided perimeter without knowing until my attention was called that they are grazing outside and i have to look closer at their house and blocked the exit. I went to see our neighbors on the 23rd December 2022, begged them, asked for what we should pay which the insisted nothing and reiterate on the logs we intend to settle everyone but forgiveness is not in their book which made me understand that there is more to their action beyond the plant that was grazed on.
None of the animals were sick before I left but by the time I came back on the evening of 26th December 2022 after spending nights consecutively with my family for the first time since August 26th that we've been here, I resumed to sick animals, a pregnant nursing mother sheep and a weaned young ram. They are just unable to walk and I thought it was because they haven't grazed since straight 48hrs because I left a strict warning never to let loose the animals while I left enough food both cassava peels and formulated feed.
And by the morning of 27th, they are dead. Both! But we are still in the mood of celebration, I palm it, processed both, the matured was roasted and the baby for our dogs. Not until the death toll reaches 4 with the same style of death starting from disoriented walk to loss of appetite, inability to walk then bloat and death. I sat to tackle the initial sickness that resembles listeriosis (lack of calcium), called our feed supplier and told me it's not from the feed, he had the courage to say so after the death toll reaches 4 and I believed because he's a professional and I've also gave them calcium gluconate injection, then the next that came to my mind is why would a bloat not go? I've rescued more than 4 animals since we came and by the following day they are ok so why would a bloat automatically leads to death? So I thought of post mortem.
All these animals are healthy before I left, we are in the dry season and there are hardly bloat causing plant so something else is affecting the rumen so I went to check where I emptied the rumen of the recent animal and viola I saw the foreign object that blocks the rumen and put more weight on their lover body that then causes the disoriented walking before finally bloating which is the last stage before death. A circle that leads to death no matter what I do to save them.
I knew it was an attack and since it's the only sheep that are the victim because they are allowed to graze outside, I thought about checking their grazing route and by the time the death toll reaches 7 with the same death pattern and even after they are no longer allowed. to graze outside I knew the it's their house and viola I saw 2 of the bait. A twine cut into pieces and knotted them soaked. Twine are fibres, ruminants likes fibers and the oil makes it more palatable in their mouth till the swallow and get stuck in their stomach.
Now our flock has reduced, to just 3 animals, a mother, a child and a father (ram). I was calling places to keep them just to save them but no one is available then I said to myself tonight, I'll be watching over them disrespect of how tired I would be, but my spirit says no I shouldn't because it's not as if I don't know the perpetrators but the thought sounds foolish and I discarded it, I brace up myself but the thought still coming back and I keep discarding it so I went to bed earlier, set my alarm and started thinking about best place to stay till it's 3am when cock crow then I stood up and was led to a portion at the back of the goat house close to the boundary river, as I laid carefully, that thought came again and said "you're making a mistake, this is not your battle and if you fight it you will loose", I asked why and the spirit said the perpetrator would never have expected me to be around least alone have cutlass with me and by the time I caught him i wont be able to curtail my anger and a single strike is all it takes rubbish all my efforts, labor and dreams about the project and also probably be behind bars then the DPO will remind me of his fatherly words we had in his office. It was the Grace I asked for that was speaking to me since the moment I conceived the thought to catch the perpetrator.
At about 4:15am, January 11 Wednesday 2023 after being in trance for almost 40 minute, the person came, saw our dogs by the river, chased them as they came to our land, never knew they followed me and he also crossed to our land, heads straight to the back of the goat house and within few seconds, he's back to the river, wet his pepper and left.
Now when he crossed and heads to the goat house, the spirit that was talking to me was silent, I had an option of turning on the light and I wanted to but my heart raced into other few actions that would have followed after switching on the lamp, I'll have stood up, held the machete and swing from his neck downward to his chest and that would have been the end. I saw it but Grace withered my whole body from acting. When he went back to the river to water the pepper that same spirit asked again " is this who you wanted to be fighting?, is this who you would have risk aborting the project for?" I said no, he is not worth it, nothing is worth it.
I stood up minutes after he left, heads to the goat house but sadly the last mother sheep has eaten the knotted twine he three bringing the total victim of the biological attack on our farm to 9 pregnant sheep and a ram.
At the moment, we have completed our irrigation casting and covered the are with chainlink net. Here is the video of our irrigation system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bo3Mhc6WI8
why not secretly hide a CCTV camera inside the Animal's pen ? and ensure no one, not even your workers (if you've got any) knows about it.
All you need is just a bullet proof evidence and you decide if to pull enough strings to ensure the person/people rots in jail.
if the animal's pen is built with wood, you could double some layers and hide the CCTV camera there and if it's with blocks or bricks, then that's equally super simple.
All these talk of holy spirit this, trance that, me no sabi am
by the way, You're no victim, and have no case against anyOne who kills your animal(s) for as long your animal(s) keep grazing on other people's farm. And you constantly asking them how you would settle them makes little to no sense. They don't want to be settled, just leave them alone. Farm work no easy. it's painful when someone spoils all that hard work and still come insult them with such silly question. if it were a One or two distance occurrence, it might be forgivable especially if the people see how much work has been put in towards ensuring there's no repeat.
That you appear to have more than they do, + You're an outSider + they were there before you, already put you at a disadvantageous position hence chances they would envy you (especially since some tribes sabi envy wella). Then you still give them valid reason to be unHappy with you.
ford101: oga it's true.its like you are not so good with the cutlass.i advice you to get a registered pump action.it ll be easier and some warning shots could go a very very long way to drive fear into the minds of the villagers.
You're correct and I believe everything comes in stages, I've discussed with my lawyer and I'm pleased to know that it doesn't come expensive to have a pump action, licensed it and easier to use.
Yes, I'm settling them once I'm able to sell the logs of firewood but I met with them, begged them to be patience with me, I've got firewood worth over 500k but since they've took action, I'll be giving them peanuts instead of settling them handsomely as I've initially planned while the rest money will go into restocking.
Architect of his own problem, you. You apparently aren't ready to end this battle. You will cry more with this choice you are making.
After the second consecutive attack on our farm and I finally decided to find time to make an official report at the police station, a piece of advice the DPO gave after being briefed about our case keep ringing on my head, his words were "Mr. Oludipe, I've read your statement and I can feel how much labour you've poured into your project and the least expected is the current happening but you have to ensure that you don't take laws into your hand once the perpetrators are caught because it's dangerous to you and your project" which I replied with, Sir, it will only take the Grace of God for me not to take laws into my hand especially if the person is caught red handed then he smiled and truly, it took the Grace of God for me not to respond after the recent biological attack on our farm.
For those who has not been following, here is the link to the initial attacks https://www.nairaland.com/7411904/could-reason-why-farm-poisoned and the series of recent attacks started probably on the 25th of December 2022 and it was a planned attack. They made sure I had left the ranch for Christmas, their village is just by the main and only road and they knew my car and could also confirm if I am on the farm since I'm the only one that currently works here aside the fact that they are our neighbors next to us and could really get close and even sneak in closer to observe our far from a few distance without being noticed, that was the ploy used when our farm was first poisoned and our only crime is our animal graze on their farm.
initially I believed they are going to be asset and thought good things about them as I even plan for the farm, with solar powered irrigation, I've imagined how our irrigation system will power our farm and their for them to remain in business especially since they are pepper farmers and earns every 5 days but only during the rainy season while they're mostly jobless in dry season. But the truth is after I got closer to them, I see how massive their envy and jealous is. They are 3 in number, one Yoruba who happens to be their leader and two cotonue boys, their leader was born in 1985 (inscription from his stomach) while the two boys should be from mid 90s. They specialises in killing, kidnapping and murdering animals that grazes on their farmland but the community is getting wider and livestock are having access to farmland that are closer and while some close lands are being used to plant cocoa which income comes like twice in year, they are perennial farmers, plant corn, pepper and some tubers. Pepper for instance can be picked and sold every 5 days for 6months - 7months and that's having more than enough money to run a family, do village big boy and smoke some Igbo steadily.
So I approached them, apologize for the encroachment of their land, requested for what to pay which they turns dow, told them about our current difficulties, begged them to be patience as we solve those difficulties and promised to settle them better as we've started settling every farmers from the proceed of logs of wood that we have. at that time, we have over 5 acres of land under a very thick forest with over an half a million naira estimate in terms of the firewood. There are 3 farmers in close proximity and settling everyone of them with good amount from the log proceed is never a problem.
So fast forward to the recent attack, I left the farm on the 24th December 2022 at around 9:15pm, reason is to ensure that my car is not seen because I envisage the attack after our animals graze again on their farm. We are in the height of dry season and we don't have a fodder yet while we can't also keep them on dried cassava peels. The shee all that had already pregnant and had never graze outside our farm are left to graze everyday while the goats graze once in every 3 days just to help their rumen remain in good ph. But to goats, plants like cassava leaves smells like the way jollof rice would smell to human. After they finished the cassava leaves on our farmland I reduced their grazing to once a week and it's always monitored, I go out with them and ensure they don't leave my sight but they are not satisfied, I never knew they've pulled a prison break on me until after the 3 day so they've grazed 2 full day outside the guided perimeter without knowing until my attention was called that they are grazing outside and i have to look closer at their house and blocked the exit. I went to see our neighbors on the 23rd December 2022, begged them, asked for what we should pay which the insisted nothing and reiterate on the logs we intend to settle everyone but forgiveness is not in their book which made me understand that there is more to their action beyond the plant that was grazed on.
None of the animals were sick before I left but by the time I came back on the evening of 26th December 2022 after spending nights consecutively with my family for the first time since August 26th that we've been here, I resumed to sick animals, a pregnant nursing mother sheep and a weaned young ram. They are just unable to walk and I thought it was because they haven't grazed since straight 48hrs because I left a strict warning never to let loose the animals while I left enough food both cassava peels and formulated feed.
And by the morning of 27th, they are dead. Both! But we are still in the mood of celebration, I palm it, processed both, the matured was roasted and the baby for our dogs. Not until the death toll reaches 4 with the same style of death starting from disoriented walk to loss of appetite, inability to walk then bloat and death. I sat to tackle the initial sickness that resembles listeriosis (lack of calcium), called our feed supplier and told me it's not from the feed, he had the courage to say so after the death toll reaches 4 and I believed because he's a professional and I've also gave them calcium gluconate injection, then the next that came to my mind is why would a bloat not go? I've rescued more than 4 animals since we came and by the following day they are ok so why would a bloat automatically leads to death? So I thought of post mortem.
All these animals are healthy before I left, we are in the dry season and there are hardly bloat causing plant so something else is affecting the rumen so I went to check where I emptied the rumen of the recent animal and viola I saw the foreign object that blocks the rumen and put more weight on their lover body that then causes the disoriented walking before finally bloating which is the last stage before death. A circle that leads to death no matter what I do to save them.
I knew it was an attack and since it's the only sheep that are the victim because they are allowed to graze outside, I thought about checking their grazing route and by the time the death toll reaches 7 with the same death pattern and even after they are no longer allowed. to graze outside I knew the it's their house and viola I saw 2 of the bait. A twine cut into pieces and knotted them soaked. Twine are fibres, ruminants likes fibers and the oil makes it more palatable in their mouth till the swallow and get stuck in their stomach.
Now our flock has reduced, to just 3 animals, a mother, a child and a father (ram). I was calling places to keep them just to save them but no one is available then I said to myself tonight, I'll be watching over them disrespect of how tired I would be, but my spirit says no I shouldn't because it's not as if I don't know the perpetrators but the thought sounds foolish and I discarded it, I brace up myself but the thought still coming back and I keep discarding it so I went to bed earlier, set my alarm and started thinking about best place to stay till it's 3am when cock crow then I stood up and was led to a portion at the back of the goat house close to the boundary river, as I laid carefully, that thought came again and said "you're making a mistake, this is not your battle and if you fight it you will loose", I asked why and the spirit said the perpetrator would never have expected me to be around least alone have cutlass with me and by the time I caught him i wont be able to curtail my anger and a single strike is all it takes rubbish all my efforts, labor and dreams about the project and also probably be behind bars then the DPO will remind me of his fatherly words we had in his office. It was the Grace I asked for that was speaking to me since the moment I conceived the thought to catch the perpetrator.
At about 4:15am, January 11 Wednesday 2023 after being in trance for almost 40 minute, the person came, saw our dogs by the river, chased them as they came to our land, never knew they followed me and he also crossed to our land, heads straight to the back of the goat house and within few seconds, he's back to the river, wet his pepper and left.
Now when he crossed and heads to the goat house, the spirit that was talking to me was silent, I had an option of turning on the light and I wanted to but my heart raced into other few actions that would have followed after switching on the lamp, I'll have stood up, held the machete and swing from his neck downward to his chest and that would have been the end. I saw it but Grace withered my whole body from acting. When he went back to the river to water the pepper that same spirit asked again " is this who you wanted to be fighting?, is this who you would have risk aborting the project for?" I said no, he is not worth it, nothing is worth it.
I stood up minutes after he left, heads to the goat house but sadly the last mother sheep has eaten the knotted twine he three bringing the total victim of the biological attack on our farm to 9 pregnant sheep and a ram.
At the moment, we have completed our irrigation casting and covered the are with chainlink net. Here is the video of our irrigation system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bo3Mhc6WI8
After the second consecutive attack on our farm and I finally decided to find time to make an official report at the police station, a piece of advice the DPO gave after being briefed about our case keep ringing on my head, his words were "Mr. Oludipe, I've read your statement and I can feel how much labour you've poured into your project and the least expected is the current happening but you have to ensure that you don't take laws into your hand once the perpetrators are caught because it's dangerous to you and your project" which I replied with, Sir, it will only take the Grace of God for me not to take laws into my hand especially if the person is caught red handed then he smiled and truly, it took the Grace of God for me not to respond after the recent biological attack on our farm.
For those who has not been following, here is the link to the initial attacks https://www.nairaland.com/7411904/could-reason-why-farm-poisoned and the series of recent attacks started probably on the 25th of December 2022 and it was a planned attack. They made sure I had left the ranch for Christmas, their village is just by the main and only road and they knew my car and could also confirm if I am on the farm since I'm the only one that currently works here aside the fact that they are our neighbors next to us and could really get close and even sneak in closer to observe our far from a few distance without being noticed, that was the ploy used when our farm was first poisoned and our only crime is our animal graze on their farm.
initially I believed they are going to be asset and thought good things about them as I even plan for the farm, with solar powered irrigation, I've imagined how our irrigation system will power our farm and their for them to remain in business especially since they are pepper farmers and earns every 5 days but only during the rainy season while they're mostly jobless in dry season. But the truth is after I got closer to them, I see how massive their envy and jealous is. They are 3 in number, one Yoruba who happens to be their leader and two cotonue boys, their leader was born in 1985 (inscription from his stomach) while the two boys should be from mid 90s. They specialises in killing, kidnapping and murdering animals that grazes on their farmland but the community is getting wider and livestock are having access to farmland that are closer and while some close lands are being used to plant cocoa which income comes like twice in year, they are perennial farmers, plant corn, pepper and some tubers. Pepper for instance can be picked and sold every 5 days for 6months - 7months and that's having more than enough money to run a family, do village big boy and smoke some Igbo steadily.
So I approached them, apologize for the encroachment of their land, requested for what to pay which they turns dow, told them about our current difficulties, begged them to be patience as we solve those difficulties and promised to settle them better as we've started settling every farmers from the proceed of logs of wood that we have. at that time, we have over 5 acres of land under a very thick forest with over an half a million naira estimate in terms of the firewood. There are 3 farmers in close proximity and settling everyone of them with good amount from the log proceed is never a problem.
So fast forward to the recent attack, I left the farm on the 24th December 2022 at around 9:15pm, reason is to ensure that my car is not seen because I envisage the attack after our animals graze again on their farm. We are in the height of dry season and we don't have a fodder yet while we can't also keep them on dried cassava peels. The shee all that had already pregnant and had never graze outside our farm are left to graze everyday while the goats graze once in every 3 days just to help their rumen remain in good ph. But to goats, plants like cassava leaves smells like the way jollof rice would smell to human. After they finished the cassava leaves on our farmland I reduced their grazing to once a week and it's always monitored, I go out with them and ensure they don't leave my sight but they are not satisfied, I never knew they've pulled a prison break on me until after the 3 day so they've grazed 2 full day outside the guided perimeter without knowing until my attention was called that they are grazing outside and i have to look closer at their house and blocked the exit. I went to see our neighbors on the 23rd December 2022, begged them, asked for what we should pay which the insisted nothing and reiterate on the logs we intend to settle everyone but forgiveness is not in their book which made me understand that there is more to their action beyond the plant that was grazed on.
None of the animals were sick before I left but by the time I came back on the evening of 26th December 2022 after spending nights consecutively with my family for the first time since August 26th that we've been here, I resumed to sick animals, a pregnant nursing mother sheep and a weaned young ram. They are just unable to walk and I thought it was because they haven't grazed since straight 48hrs because I left a strict warning never to let loose the animals while I left enough food both cassava peels and formulated feed.
And by the morning of 27th, they are dead. Both! But we are still in the mood of celebration, I palm it, processed both, the matured was roasted and the baby for our dogs. Not until the death toll reaches 4 with the same style of death starting from disoriented walk to loss of appetite, inability to walk then bloat and death. I sat to tackle the initial sickness that resembles listeriosis (lack of calcium), called our feed supplier and told me it's not from the feed, he had the courage to say so after the death toll reaches 4 and I believed because he's a professional and I've also gave them calcium gluconate injection, then the next that came to my mind is why would a bloat not go? I've rescued more than 4 animals since we came and by the following day they are ok so why would a bloat automatically leads to death? So I thought of post mortem.
All these animals are healthy before I left, we are in the dry season and there are hardly bloat causing plant so something else is affecting the rumen so I went to check where I emptied the rumen of the recent animal and viola I saw the foreign object that blocks the rumen and put more weight on their lover body that then causes the disoriented walking before finally bloating which is the last stage before death. A circle that leads to death no matter what I do to save them.
I knew it was an attack and since it's the only sheep that are the victim because they are allowed to graze outside, I thought about checking their grazing route and by the time the death toll reaches 7 with the same death pattern and even after they are no longer allowed. to graze outside I knew the it's their house and viola I saw 2 of the bait. A twine cut into pieces and knotted them soaked. Twine are fibres, ruminants likes fibers and the oil makes it more palatable in their mouth till the swallow and get stuck in their stomach.
Now our flock has reduced, to just 3 animals, a mother, a child and a father (ram). I was calling places to keep them just to save them but no one is available then I said to myself tonight, I'll be watching over them disrespect of how tired I would be, but my spirit says no I shouldn't because it's not as if I don't know the perpetrators but the thought sounds foolish and I discarded it, I brace up myself but the thought still coming back and I keep discarding it so I went to bed earlier, set my alarm and started thinking about best place to stay till it's 3am when cock crow then I stood up and was led to a portion at the back of the goat house close to the boundary river, as I laid carefully, that thought came again and said "you're making a mistake, this is not your battle and if you fight it you will loose", I asked why and the spirit said the perpetrator would never have expected me to be around least alone have cutlass with me and by the time I caught him i wont be able to curtail my anger and a single strike is all it takes rubbish all my efforts, labor and dreams about the project and also probably be behind bars then the DPO will remind me of his fatherly words we had in his office. It was the Grace I asked for that was speaking to me since the moment I conceived the thought to catch the perpetrator.
At about 4:15am, January 11 Wednesday 2023 after being in trance for almost 40 minute, the person came, saw our dogs by the river, chased them as they came to our land, never knew they followed me and he also crossed to our land, heads straight to the back of the goat house and within few seconds, he's back to the river, wet his pepper and left.
Now when he crossed and heads to the goat house, the spirit that was talking to me was silent, I had an option of turning on the light and I wanted to but my heart raced into other few actions that would have followed after switching on the lamp, I'll have stood up, held the machete and swing from his neck downward to his chest and that would have been the end. I saw it but Grace withered my whole body from acting. When he went back to the river to water the pepper that same spirit asked again " is this who you wanted to be fighting?, is this who you would have risk aborting the project for?" I said no, he is not worth it, nothing is worth it.
I stood up minutes after he left, heads to the goat house but sadly the last mother sheep has eaten the knotted twine he three bringing the total victim of the biological attack on our farm to 9 pregnant sheep and a ram.
At the moment, we have completed our irrigation casting and covered the are with chainlink net. Here is the video of our irrigation system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bo3Mhc6WI8
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