FCT village head decries herders’ destruction of their farms

By Abba – Eku Onyeka

The village head of Idu, Abuja the nation’s capital, Alhaji Mohammed Bawa has cried to the Minister, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Muhammad Bawa to help his subjects from the destruction of their farms by herders.

Addressing journalists in his palace at his new year message to the people and the government recently, Bawa said that he noted with dismay that the government’s planned food sufficiency and security would be hardly achieved, if the destruction of farms by the herders are not curtailed by the government. He informed that a farmer in his domain received several marchet  cuts from herders, while trying to protect his farm.

The village head who disclosed that they used to train their children in schools as farmers and feed therefrom, regretted that they couldn’t do so again, as a result of having taken their lands by the government and the herders’ destruction of their farms on the few portions left for them to farm on.

The village Chief also appealed to the government, companies and individuals allocated their lands to, to be giving employment to their children for them to  be able to fend for their families, as the government has taken over their farm lands, as well as herders’ destroying their farms on the few portions left for them to farm on.

Enjoining the residents and the indigenes in his domain to continue to live in peace, Bawa however urged them to keep to the COVID-19 19 guidelines from the Presidential Taskforce, which if done, according to him would curtail the pandemic’s spread.