Hundreds of farmers in Ido Local Government Area, Oyo State staged a peaceful demonstration on Thursday to protest invasion and destruction of their farmlands by Fulani cattle rearers.
Numbering about 400, the farmers mobilised themselves from villages in Ido Local Government and called on the state government to take urgent action.
The villages reportedly include Onikanga, Mabolese, Alatori, Agbetu and Olorode.
The Secretary, Osho Forestry Reserve in the Local Government Area, Alhaji Asimiyu who also doubled as the Farmer’s spokesperson said “Many of us have been ruined following the incessant invasions of our farms by the grazing cattle of these Fulani herdsmen, as we have no other means of livelihood,” he lamented, as he narrated the ordeals of the agitated farmers to newsmen.
“This year alone, some of our members were matcheted on their farms by invading Bororos while nothing seems to have been done by the authorities to checkmate them.”
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Leye Oyebade also reportedly organised a peace meeting between the two parties warning them to avoid violence.