Idumueno Community warns cattle rearers against grazing their herd on their Crops
Elders of Idumueno Community in Alisimie , Agbor, in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, have warned cattle rearers in the area not to allow their cattle to graze in their farmlands.
The warning was given during the elders and community council meeting at Ogwa Aliogor in Idumeno Quarters of Alisimie Community.
During the meeting , the Onu Odion of Alijematan Quarters, Elder Donatus Ebie, said that the wanton destruction of farm crops and farmlands as a result of cattle grazing in the area had remained a threat to their economic lives particularly, the crops in their farmlands.
He reiterated that the grazing of cows by the rearers in the community had caused a serious damage to their crops and continued to pose a serious danger to the farmers, particularly, to the women who are now reluctant to go to their farms as a result of fear of not being attacked by the rearers.
The warning came following the arrest of one of the rearers who identified himself as Mallam Baba Baju, an Hausa from Kano State, who was caught grazing 43 cows in the community’s farmland.
Baju was apprehended by members of the community after a hot chase, while his colleague escaped with the the cows.
The community members who refused to beat him up, ordered him to call the owner of the cows to come and assess the level of the damage which the cows had done to the crops in the community’s Farmfor settlement.
“The community, he said, would enter a legal agreement with them ( rearers )and that they would also take a legal action against any violator of the community’ s laws and warnings
He stated that Idumueno Community is made up of Aliogor , Alijematan, Alimokwe and Asogban Quarters of Alisimie Community in Agbor in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State .
Pleading with the community to temper justice with mercy, the leader of the members of Hausa Community who visited the community, Mallam Sani Usman, pleaded with the community to allow the rearer ( Mallam Baju) who was apprehended .by the members of the Community to regain his freedom.
While apologizing for the wrongs done to the community, he promised that the rearers would settle with the community to ensure total peace with the community members.
