Nigerian Farmers To Pay Terrorist Levies Before Harvesting
Nigerian Farmers To Pay Terrorist Levies Before Harvesting
Terrorists are forcing some local Nigerian farmers to pay levies before they can harvest crops from their Kaduna State farms.
Farmers from Kidandan and Galadima villages are the ones impacted, while those from Angular Fala’u and Kerawa villages are regularly harassed and abducted while working on their crops, according to the source.
A resident of Kidandan village named Malam Jamil Kidandan told the newspaper that the community’s members, the majority of whom are farmers, always pay between N70,000 and N100,000 before harvesting their produce. Those who refuse to pay risk being kidnapped, killed, or having their produce seized by terrorists.
The source described him as saying, “The bandits’ warlord and his boys stay by the side while a farmer goes to negotiate with him before gaining access to the farm.” He bemoaned the fact that farmers in the Galadimawa axis are the victims of comparable atrocities, and he called on the Nigerian government, particularly the armed forces, to intensify operations against terrorist camps in and around Giwa Local Government Area.
Speaking under oath, a second villager in the region named Buhari, his deputy Gana’i, and the third warlord in command, Kwalameri, as the terrorists’ warlords terrorizing the residents. In a same vein, community leader Malam Jafar Anaba warned that the state could experience a food crop crisis if the problem was not promptly remedied. He was relocated from his hamlet, Anguwar Salahu, in Kerawa village.
He claims that a lot of farmers have given up on their land as a result of the local terrorists’ intimidation and harassment. An official comment on the subject has not yet been released by the state police command.
The Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, was not immediately reachable by phone.In the meantime, Anguwar Algaita village in Kaduna’s Randagi Ward of the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area was attacked by a group of militants on Tuesday night.
Twelve residents, including adults and women, were abducted, and their whereabouts were concealed from their family. Nonetheless, local villagers found two dead bodies in a nearby thicket on Wednesday night—among those taken hostage by the militants. Local youth leader Shehu Randagi informed Daily Trust that the dead were killed because they would not go into the bush with the criminals.
He said that another individual had been found, also alive, but with a bullet wound. For medical attention, the injured party was brought to Birnin Gwari Hospital. Both of the bodies that were found were male.