Udom’s Aide Alleges Invasion Of Farm By Herdsmen

Mr. Ime Uwah, a Senior Special Assistant, SSA to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has alleged the invasion of his farm plantation by those he dubbed as Fulani herdsmen.

Uwah who is SSA on Marketing and Brand Management, said the latest invasion which occurred on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 was the second time that the herdsmen would be invading his farm. He said the first time was in July 2021.

According to him when the herdsmen invaded last July his farm manager who dared to challenge them had his hand chopped off.

Uwah said in the latter case on Wednesday, February 10,2021, the herdsmen set fire on a neighbouring farm and that the fire spread and consumed over 400 stands of plantains in his farm.

He said: “sometime in July, last year, we had an incident where the herdsmen passed through our farm land. They will normally pass through the road, but recently they started entering into our farm. That particular day when their cattle entered our farm and destroyed our cassava and other crops.

“My farm manager approached them and in response they decided to attack him and cut his hand. We followed up this matter with the relevant agencies including the police and the Civil Defense. “The Civil Defense has a unit that oversees matters of this nature and we were working with them to see who will  pay for the treatment but to no avail.

“Just last week Wednesday they passed through the farm again and destroyed our plantation. The fire incident happened that they went and set fire on a farm land close to my own. It’s that fire that spread to my own farm. When we tried to stop the fire they launched an attack back and it looks as if their aim was to burn down the entire plantation.

“My people battle to put out the fire and when we thought the fire had been extinguished, I woke up that night to see fire again and it burnt down 400 stands of our plantation,” he alleged.

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