The Irigwe Community of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State has demand N500 million as compensation by the state government over massive destruction of farmcrops by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
The National President of Irigwe Development Association (IDA) Prince Robert Ashi Dodo during a Press Conference in Jos said the Rigwe nation has been hugely and largely hit by the Fulani Militia in 2021 and early 2022 which culminated in the several lost of lives, farm crops and property worth countless amounts.
“We call on the plateau state government to wake up to its sole and constitutional responsibility of ensuring the protection of lives and property of citizenry and by extension, draw a compensation means of all the destructions so that the hardship imposed on the Rigwe people can be ameliorated”.
Dodo expressed sadness and frown at the indiscriminate grazing and display of rascality by the suspected Fulani herdsmen in their land.
“For the record, since February they have destroyed and damaged several dry season farm crops ranging from cabbage, tomatoes, pepper, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, green beans, piece as well as looted water pump machines and other farming implements in many villages amounted to the tun of over five hundred million naira”.
“We call on the operation safe Haven Plateau state to as a matter of utmost importance, stand by their earlier pronouncement that all herders in Irigwe land be withdrawn and desist from grazing around, and ensure that the enforcement is done to the latter”.
“It is widely known and indisputable that farming is the major source of livelihood of Rigwe People, and any attempt to frustrate it is equal to an attempt to subject the nation to total impoverishment and malnourishment which is uncalled for”.
