Ogun Residents Drive Herdsdmen, Livestock Away From Community

Residents of Ijebu Imosan in Ogun State have driven some herdsmen and their livestock away from the community.

The expulsion of the ‘unwanted guests’ was seen in a video made available to THE WHISTLER on Monday.

The person who recorded the video could be heard saying the Fulani herdsmen and their cattle stormmed the community at night and they decided to chase them away from the community because allowing them to settle in the town would lead to crisis in the future.

In the video, residents could be seen escorting the herders and several hundreds of livestock away from the town.

Scores of residents were seen trekking after the Fulani men and their animals to make sure that none of them is left behind.

Some are on motocycles while some vehicles also followed the pastoralists as they move out of the community together with their livestock.

Some of the residents can be heard saying, ” We don’t want herdsdmen in our town. Our town is peaceful, we don’t want war.

” They brought thousands of cows into our community overnight and we are driving them away now.

“We are not attacking them, there is no fight but we are asking then to go. They should leave our town.

“We are all saying they should go.all the youths and elders are escorting them.out of the community.we don’t want them here. We want unity but not the unity of killing us.”

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, was one of the members of the Southern Governors’ Forum who announced a total ban on open grazing recently.

However, President Muhammadu Buhari last week announced that the grazing routes which has been taken over by development would be revisited.