Abia farmer cries out as cows destroy crops, farmland

By Steve Oko

UMUAHIA — A 53-year-old farmer, Mrs. Felicia Nwokonte, from Umuana Ndume successful Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, has lamented the demolition of her farmland and crops by cows allegedly belonging to herders.

Nwokonte, a parent of four, said her fenced farmland located adjacent Obioma Quarters down Timber Shed Market, Umuahia, was wholly destroyed aft herders allegedly broke the padlock connected her gross and grazed their cattle connected her farm.

“I could not admit my workplace again. All the cassava, yam, vegetables, and different crops I planted were eaten up by cows. They turned the farmland into a shot pitch. It is similar the Fulani boys rearing the cows are sleeping wrong my farm,” she told Vanguard.

She described the incidental arsenic “cruelty and wickedness,” and appealed to the Abia State Government to intervene, noting that she was excessively acrophobic to face the herders for fearfulness of being attacked.

Efforts to get a absorption from the constabulary were unsuccessful, arsenic calls placed to the Police Public Relations Officer, Maureen Chinaka, and the Commissioner of Police, Danladi Isa, were not answered.

Despite the enactment of the anti-open grazing instrumentality successful Abia State, residents accidental cows inactive graze openly with impunity, adjacent successful the authorities capital. Streets successful Umuahia are often littered with cattle droppings, portion herders proceed to roam astatine nighttime contempt authorities warnings.

The Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) had precocious threatened to apprehension cows recovered roaming, but the informing appears to person been ignored, arsenic information agencies are accused of turning a unsighted oculus to the menace.

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