“We went to the community and reported to the youth leader and went back to the farm the following day, I personally asked one of the herdsmen what happened to my cassava that they have destroyed and I don’t have anyone to harvest for food or to sell for my children upkeep, he told me that my community chief has collected money from them and they will stay till their money is exhausted.”
She further said all efforts to make their government representatives intervene in the matter and to enable them to return to their farms had proved unsuccessful. Glory said, “Our local government chairman and our representative at the State House of Assembly are aware of this but have not done anything to help us. We the Ogoni women are all farmers and it is what we profit from farming that we use in training our children and doing all we want to do as a livelihood.”
“The government should send all these herdsmen away from our land and empower our women to return back to active farming.” Earlier, Executive Director of Lokiaka, Martha Agbani, explained that the meeting was to sensitise them on how to be vigilant and security conscious while in their farms.
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