Banditry: Why I abandon my 10,000 hectares Birnin Gwari farm — Bafarawa

Bafarawa, while speaking to members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Correspondents’ Chapel in Sokoto, who paid him a courtesy visit at his residence, said the farm land along Birnin Gwari/Kaduna road, before now, had been a beehive of farming activities, where various crops were cultivated since 1979, but with the emergence of banditry and kidnapping for ransome, the reverse was now the case.

“Imagine in my local government area, we have to negotiate with bandits to allow us farm as if there is no constituted authority. They decide where we should farm at every given season, which is very sad and unfortunate. “If care is not taken, this year, there will be famine and hunger in the North West as many farmers, who were supposed to farm and their families were driven from their villages.

“FG should wake up from its slumber and do whatever it takes to allow displaced peasant farmers return to their farmlands before the commencement of rainy season or else achieving food security in many states of the north will only be a mockery,” said Bafarawa.”Cartoon: Then it’s still a long May Day for NigeriansSubscribe to our E-EDITIONS

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