Abia farmer cries out over destruction of crops, farmland by cows

By Steve Oko

Mrs Felicia Nwokonte from Umuana Ndume successful Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, has cried retired implicit the full demolition of her crops and farmland located adjacent Obioma quarters down Timber Shed Market, Umuahia, by cows.

The 53-year-old parent of four, who said she was into farming to enactment the family, told Vanguard that she could not recognise her workplace again arsenic cows not lone devour up the harvest but besides wholly levelled the full farmland successful a fenced crippled of land.

Narrating her ordeal to our Correspondent, Mrs Nwokonte accused the herders of breaking the padlock with which she locked the entranceway gross to the fenced crippled of onshore earlier grazing their flock connected the farm.

” I could not recognise my workplace again. All the cassava, yam, vegetables and different crops that I planted were eaten up by cows. They turned the farmland into a shot pitch. It’s similar the Fulani boys rearing the cows are sleeping wrong my farm.”

Describing the demolition of her workplace arsenic cruelty and the tallness of wickedness, the parent of 4 called connected Abia State Government to travel to her aid.

Asked if she had tried to face the herders, she said she was acrophobic they mightiness onslaught her.

Attempts to get absorption from the constabulary were unsuccessful arsenic neither the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Maureen Chinaka; nor the Commissioner of Police, Danladi Isa, picked calls enactment crossed to them.

Despite the enactment of anti unfastened grazing instrumentality successful Abia State, cows person continued to graze openly adjacent with impunity successful parts of the authorities including the authorities capital.

Streets of Umuahia the authorities superior are sometimes, littered with cattle droppings arsenic the herders person continued to roam with their animals adjacent astatine nighttime contempt Government warnings.

Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, ASEPA, precocious threatened to apprehension the cows but the menace seems to person lone fallen connected deaf ears.

Security agencies look to person turned a unsighted eyes distant arsenic the herders and their cows are connected the prawl.

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