Former naval chief, Vice-Admiral
Samuel Afolayan, yesterday claimed that herdsmen burnt his 20 hectares of
orange plantation, 20 hectares of cassava farm and five hectares of palm
plantation.
Afolayan disclosed this while
addressing reporters in Ibbo-Ile, Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State.
He said herdsmen had been
destroying his plantations in the last 10 years.
According him, the farm is about
500 hectares and the damages when put together worth over N200 million.
Afolayan said: “The burning of my
farmland has become an annual routine. This is the first time of letting people
into what has been happening in the last 10 years. It is the cow-rearers that
have been damaging my farms, and right now, there are about three cases in
court.
“Every year, my farm is burnt and
I thought it was not deliberate when it first started. When I realise that
those involved are people of low means, I will release them. But along the line
I discovered they were being sponsored by people of means.
“Somebody is presently in
detention and he is from Zamfara State; the one in court is from Niger State.
So most of the damages I have been incurring are from the North. They carry
their cows, mindless of the size of what you have or get, and destroy it with
impunity.
“No less than 20 hectares of
oranges, five hectares of palm trees and 20 hectares of cassava had been burnt
or destroyed this year. I am not an expert or a valuer, but my estimation is
that the current loss is over N200 million.”
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