TODAY
January 26, 2021
Some suspected Fulani herdsmen have destroyed a multi-million naira maize farm belonging to members of the Maize Growers Processing Marketer Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN) in Ekiti state.
The farm covering about 235 hectares of land is at the state forest reserve in Aduloju farmstead located along Ado-Ijan road in Ado local government area of the state.
Speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, the state secretary of the association, Mr Tope Emmanuel said the herders had been terrorising the farmers in the last one week leading to the destruction of the maize farm.
Emmanuel explained that the pastorals stormed the farm at night with dangerous weapons to feed their cows and, ” all efforts to stop them have been rebuffed.”