NO fewer than 15 mobile policemen
escaped death by whiskers as Fulani herdsmen opened fire on them in Akure, the
Ondo state capital. Suspected kidnappers of Chief Falae with their leader
Abubakar Auta holding N823,900 of the ransom in Akure Vanguard gathered that
the herdsmen numbering about ten stormed the farm of the former Secretary to
the Government of the Federation SGF, Chief Olu Falae located at Kajola, in Igbatoro area of the state and destroyed it.
Chief Falae
invited the police only for the herdsmen to attack the policemen deployed to
the farm by the state police commissioner Hilda Harrison. The continued
invasion of the farm of the Elder statesman and its destruction by the herdsmen
recently led to his kidnapped and also the killing of one of his security men.
Some of Chief Falae’s kidnappers who were later arrested by detectives are
presently facing trial in court.
Sources told Vanguard that the
herdsmen last weekend again stormed the Afenifere Chieftains farm and destroyed
it. He reportedly informed the police authorities in the state and mobile
policemen were hurriedly deployed to the scene On sighting the policemen,
Vanguard gathered that the herdsmen opened fire on them.
There were exchange of gun shot
between the policemen and the herdsmen who insisted that their cows would graze
on the farm. Vanguard gathered that over 300 cows were brought to the farm by
the herdsmen to graze. Some cows were killed while the herdsmen fled to
different directions during the battle. Speaking with Vanguard, Chief falae
confirmed the invasion of his farm by the herdsmen.
” I invited the police to my farm
because the herdsmen have been coming to the farm everyday for several weeks
and they are longer hiding. They come into the farm around 5am till 9am,
destroy the farm, so I went to the police for protection and some Policemen
were sent to the farm yesterday
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