Women Raped n Killed In Farms By Fulani In Ogun-State

Fulani herdsmen move with their cattle from one of these farming communities to the other causing havoc according to report.

Farmers and residents of agrarian communities in some local government areas of Ogun State have some disturbing tales to tell on the menace of Fulani cattle guiders otherwise known as Fulani herdsmen.

So many lives have been lost while property worth millions of Naira has been destroyed allegedly by these Fulanis.

Further findings have also shown that worse still, they do not respect the borders of the state. They did not only seek pasture they inflict deaths and mayhem.

Records have shown that, not quiet long ago, the border town of Oja-Odan in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State was invaded by some Fulani herdsmen who killed a farmer and injured dozens of others.

The farmer, identified as Agbaose Sewotan, was killed because he complained against the invasion of his farm.

It was learnt that his elder brother, Mr Oluwole Sewontan while narrating their ordeal, said; “this is not the first time that our people were slaughtered like cows on our own soil with impunity. My dear brother was killed simply because he protested the invasion of his farmland by the herdsmen.”

A mother of three, Mrs Ayesi Balogun, was allegedly raped and killed   by some suspected Fulani herdsmen at Asa village, in the Oja Odan area,Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Balogun, was said to have been killed after being raped on her farm. This revelation was in a statement made available to the public.