Small Holders Women Farmers, yesterday staged a protest towards the common destruction of their farmlands and crops by cattle rearers within the State.

The girls are from 4 communities of Nkpoghoro, Ugwuegu, Ohaisu and Itim in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

The girls took to the streets of Afikpo city chanting songs with sticks of their arms, expressing their grievances on the growing destruction of their farm produce by Fulani herdsmen.

These Herdsmen reportedly rear their cattle into the farms of those girls with out recourse to the proprietor’s emotions and anticipated farm produce.

The chief of the group, Madam Ogwu Idume lamented over the state of their rice and cassava farms, together with the streams which is the supply of ingesting water within the farm areas.

She mentioned that a number of efforts have been made beforehand via discussions and dialogue with the pinnacle of the Hausa and Fulani group in Afikpo on easy methods to sort out the menace, but no headway has been made.

The protesters went to the Area Command Office of the Nigerian Police, to the palace of Ezeogo Ewa Elechi, Eke Market and Local Government Council headquarters to drive house their demand for justice and fairness.

Addressing the folks, Chairman of Afikpo North LGA, Barr. Obiageri Oko-enyim, represented by the Development Center coordinator of Afikpo North, Mrs Amuche Otunta Godwin famous that farmers, herders problem was a nationwide growth that wanted pressing consideration in any respect ranges.

The Chairman who calmed the ladies and defined that violence has by no means solved any drawback appreciated them for conducting themselves peacefully at the same time as she charged them to go house as their complaints can be totally addressed. (Vanguard)