Usman Baba, a farmer in Eshijiko Village under Pada district of Pategi local council, Kwara State, was killed by some herders who intruded his farm last Sunday.
According to a report by Daily Trust, Baba went to his farm at night where he met the herders and instructed them to leave. This incident, however, turned violent and the herders killed him.
In vengeance, the deceased’s kinsmen stormed the herders’ settlement and razed a number of houses. The unrest, according to locals, had displaced many residents.
Alhaji Idris Ali, Sarkin Fulani of Ilorin East, disclosed over 1,000 Fulani have been displaced.
“Our position after the report of the killing of the farmer was for security agencies to be allowed to do their job and bring whoever is found culpable to book. We were surprised with the latest development of taking laws into their hands,” the monarch said.
Also, Alhaji Jao Yahaya, one of the Fulani leaders in Kwara, said about 500 houses were destroyed and several people have been displaced.
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“Ten classrooms blocks of nomadic school for our children, maize, guinea corn, yam, rice, cassava, motorcycles and several cows worth over N50m were lost to the incident,” he stated.
Yahaya claimed that the warring communities had lived peacefully for over 47 years. He, however, urged the authority to restore normalcy to the area.
Spokesman for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), in Kwara State, Olasunkanmi Ayeni, confirmed the incident, saying, the herders’ settlement was completely razed with a number of cows and foodstuffs following the murder of the farmer.
