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By Haruna Aliyu, Birnin Kebbi
Farmers and herders, connected Thursday, clashed successful Unguwar Dambo village, Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area of Kebbi State.
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According to an eyewitness, Alhaji Faruku, herders, who had been successful a moving conflict with farmers, sent a connection to them to rapidly harvest their crops.
They crushed was that they volition walk done their farms with a herd of cattle.
However, the farmers, who didn’t heed their warning, turned up astatine their farms lone to beryllium attacked by Fulani herders portion they were working
The herders killed 1 Malam Sule, a farmer, from the village.
His sidesplitting sparked outrage successful the village, resulting to reprisal onslaught from farmers which claimed the beingness of a Fulani herder yet to beryllium identified.
Our source, who mislaid his wife’s elder brother, appealed to authorities to extremity the age-long occupation betwixt herders and farmers successful the village.
“The occupation is not new, and is known by accepted rulers successful the area. We expect justness for the victim, and we besides request an extremity to the face-off,” helium said.
At property clip the Police had not responded to enquiries sent to them for confirmation oregon their broadside of the story.
The station Two dice arsenic farmers, herders clash successful Kebbi appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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