Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, popularly known as the Amotekun Corps, were at the weekend engaged in a violent clash with suspected herdsmen in Sango, Igoba, Akure, the state capital.
It was gathered that the attack occurred when the Amotekun
operatives were enforcing the anti-open grazing law of the state.
During the attack, some of the operatives were brutally
macheted, with the violent clash leading to a halt in vehicular movement for
several hours along the Ado-Akure road.
The operatives were responding to a distress call from
farmers in the area over the destruction of their farmlands and crops by the
herders’ cattle when they were swooped on and attacked.
The late governor of the state, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,
signed the anti-open grazing bill into law on August 13, 2021, which prohibited
open grazing of animals across the state.
While confirming the development, the Public Relations
Officer of the Amotekun Corps, Jimoh Adeniken, disclosed that the operatives
deployed for the operation displayed courage and determination in de-escalating
the volatile situation, despite the violent assault they endured.
“During the operation, the corps surveillance team was led
to the farms by the owners. On getting there, they met over one hundred and
twenty cows ravaging the farms, and there was nobody with the cows.
“Determined to enforce the anti-open grazing law of the
state, the operatives of the Amotekun corps moved the cows out of the farms,
and while passing by the Sango Area, at Igoba, along Ado Road in Akure, groups
of armed Fulani herdsmen attacked the officers with stones, bottles, cutlasses
and guns.
“Thereafter, the corps retreated based on the order from the
state headquarters of the Amotekun corps.
“Furthermore, the assailants continued to throw stones and
bottles till they invaded the main road and hacked one of the Amotekun officers
to a coma while attempting to disarm the officers and men of the Amotekun
corps.
“Sequentially, the officers of the Amotekun Corps shot into
the air to dislodge them and move back to the office.”
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