Reviving harmony: Kwara Assembly target Herder-Farmer committee.

A farmer by the name of Mr. Solomon Dabuu meets untimely death at the hands of herdsman in Ajelanwa, Asa LGA, Kwara State. On the house floor, Hon. Yinusa Oniboki, disclosed the information during a plenary sitting.

Prompted by this incident, the legislature is seeking the re-establishment of the Herder-Farmers committee across the state’s 16 LGAs.

The farmers killing, the lawmaker said, resulted from a clash with herdsmen whose livestock had destroyed his crops in Ajelanwa.

Oniboki, had  relied on order VII, Rule 40 of the House Rules to draw the attention of his colleagues to the ugly incident that occurred in Ajelanwa, near Aboto Oja and the need to avert further escalation of the crisis.

He told the  House that, “it is on good account that a few days ago,some herdsmen drove their cattle to a farm in Ajelanwa to feed on the crops planted on the farm and unknown to them, the farmer, Mr. Solomon Dabuu who was somewhere close by was watching as the cattle were eating his crops. He was said to have come out to challenge the herders and this led to a fracas in the process of which the farmer  was brutally attacked with machete, and lost his life.”

He added that  the herders abandoned their cattle,  numbering about 40 and fled the scene of the incident.

Oniboki said that the perpetrators of the dastardly act had been arrested and have been detained  in police custody in Afon, the headquarters of Asa local government area.

The Lawmakers then resolved to appeal to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to instruct security agency heads to enhance security measures in the Ajelanwa-Aboto axis, Afon districts, Asa LGA, to prevent further escalation.

They  also directed the 16 local government areas in the state to resuscitate the Herder-farmers Committee so that it can continue its function of arbitration between the herdsmen and farmers.