Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State
By Yusuf Salihu Sansani, Jalingo
Herders have killed one person and injured fourteen others in a renewed crisis between farmers and herders in Yelwa Abbare community of Ardo Kola Local Government Area, Taraba State.
The crisis started after a herder took his cattles into rice farms which destroyed huge sections of the field.
Narrating his ordeal, one of the victims of the crisis, Haruna Yusuf said they were harvesting rice when a herder came to pass through their farms with his cattles but they prevented him from doing so because there was no cattle rout through the farms but the herder insisted and pushed his herds into some portion of the rice farms that have not been harvested.
Yusuf stated as a result a crisis ensued between the herders and farmers in the process, a herder cut off a finger of a farmer and hit another on the head which led to a pandemonium.
Another victim, Muhammad Ibrahim who said he came to Taraba State from Daye village in Potiskum Local Government Area of Yobe State said they were working as labourers in the rice farms when the herders regrouped at midnight of Thursday night and attacked over forty farm settlements housing over 200 labourers beating them with sticks and cutlasses.
The victim said majority of them escaped into the bush and the lucky ones went to Yelwa Abbare village while the wounded were left unattended.
He said they went back to the farms and carried their wounded colleagues including the deceased Malam Hassan Jos who was severely cut on his forehead.
Both Yusuf and Ibrahim decried the rampant cases of banditry particularly in Yelwa Abbare and appealed to all the authorities concerned and the Taraba State Government to take proactive measures to curtail the ugly situation.
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