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Farmers have been under serial attacks in all Southwest states, mainly Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo, fuelling fear of acute food shortage if the state governments do not intervene proactively, THISDAY has learnt.
Across the geo-political zone, findings revealed, farmers are abandoning their farmsteads, plantations, orchards and processing factories amid the increasing spate of armed invasion, kidnapping and destruction of farmland by herdsmen.
Oyo, for instance, has become the epicentre of banditry and kidnappings with over 30 persons, especially farmers abducted at different agrarian communities in Ibadan, Fiditi and Ibarapaland Local Government Areas (LGAs).
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How to restore security in Yewa, by group Mustapha Temidayo
Armed groups occupying Yewa communties in Ogun State pose danger to security and livelihood in South West and Benin Republic, the Nigerian Human Rights Community, (NHRC), has said.
The group said if the budding armed cell in Yewa is allowed to grow, the terrorists may replicate in Ogun State, the violence and chaos in North East and North West in the shortest time.
Armed groups are currently in Yewa communities of Iganna, Ibeku, Opebu, Igbo-Oko, communities in Ogun State. In the past few years, no fewer than 60 people have either been killed, kidnapped or maimed by armed insurgents in the area.
The red chamber also mandated relevant security agencies to restore law and order in the troubled communities.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Mar 10, 2021
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday, asked the Nigerian Government to bring back the people of Yewa in Ogun State who fled their communities to the Republic of Benin following incessant herdsmen attacks.
It asked the Nigerian government to direct officials of the National Emergency Management Agency and Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs to see to the repatriation of the villagers.
The resolution followed a point of order raised by the Senator representing Ogun West, Tolu Odebiyi.
The red chamber also mandated relevant security agencies to restore law and order in the troubled communities.
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There is no respite for residents of Yewaland in Ogun State as rampaging nomadic Fulani herdsmen continue to maul them on their home soil. Consequently, many of the residents have fled to neighbouring Pobe in Benin Republic.
The number of Yewa villagers taking refuge at a makeshift Internally Displaced Persons camp located at Pobe in Benin Republic continues to increase day after day as Fulani herdsmen unleash fresh terror on residents of Yewaland.
Some villagers in villages in Yewaland such as Oha, Asa, Igbooro, Ibeku, Moro, Agbon-Ojodu among others have since fled their homes in Ogun State as the atrocious acts of the marauding herdsmen grew.