Suspected Fulani herdsmen have grazed freely into a 70
hecters palliative farmland cultivated to help Internally Displaced Persons
(IDPs) in Rotsu village of Miango District in Bassa Local Government Area of
Plateau State.
It was gathered that over 300 cows invaded the farmland on
Thursday evening and destroyed maize, guinea corn and soya beans cultivated by
Miango Youth Development Association, Plateau State to assist the villagers who
were displaced by herdsmen.
Secretary General of Miago Youth Development Association, Mr.
Gani Emmanuel, described the incident as an attempt to throw the entire Bassa
Local Government Area into acute hunger in 2021.
He said residents of Rotsu who were displaced in 2017 are
currently living in pains and anguish with relations but when the youths
mobilized themselves to cultivate the farm to assist the people, Fulani bandits
grazed mercilessly into the crops.
“What prompted us to cultivate the 70 hectres of land is to
support the displaced persons, you can see destroyed buildings here, there are
people that were residing here but left to other communities due to attacks.
“We took the initiative, tagged palliative farmland to
support the displaced persons but it is unfortunate that four days after we
weed the farmland and applied over 30 bags of fertilizer, Fulani bandits came
in the afternoon of Thursday 16 July and grazed over the whole land.
“We have invested over N500,000 in cultivating the land and
expecting crops of over N100 million but all was destroyed in one day.”
Rivi Samson, the Assistant Secretary and John Bulus, the
Financial Secretary called on Federal Government to intervene and help the
Displaced persons who are wallowing in anguish without food and roof over their
heads.
Mathew Kutus, a farmer from the community lamented that since
the community was displaced and 20 persons perished in 2017, government has not
assisted them in anyway.
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