Farmers raise alarm over incessant herders attack in Ebonyi

Farmers at Ebonyi State University, EBSU, farm, in Abakaliki, have raised alarm over incessant herders destruction of their farmlands.

The farmers lamented that the herders grazing over two hundred cows stormed their farmlands and destroyed their vegetable and crop farms.

According to one of the farmers and a widow, Mrs Elizabeth Nwachukwu, her crop and vegetable farms were destroyed beyond recognition last year.

She appealed to the State Government to ban grazing of cows at EBSU Agric farm.

“Herders stormed my farm that has pumpkin, ugu, green, cassava, yam and other crops and destroyed them beyond recognition.

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“I am a widow and over seventy years, yet I farm every year; that’s the only way to earn livelihood.

“Surprisingly, the herders purposely sent their cows to destroy our farms to a point that we were invited by some persons who ended up consoling us without a dime to ameliorate our plights,” Nwachukwu added.

Another window, who gave her name as Ibi Eunice, narrated that her family faced starvation throughout the previous year as the farmland was her major source of livelihood, urging Ebonyi State government to call the herders to order.

“I have tried hard even at my age to make sure that my family did not rely on the government to feed our children.

“We are appealing that the Ebonyi State government should do something before we take the law into our hands,” she said.

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Farmers raise alarm over incessant herders attack in Ebonyi