Fulani herders have again assaulted a few groups in Ketu Local Council Development Area in Ogun State.
The attack happened three days after a peace meeting went on within community leader's and in addition state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu.
The commissioner assembled the conference with the pioneers of agriculturists and herders in the aggrieved region two weeks back to stop the perpetual killings of Ketu individuals professedly by herders.
Portraying the most recent assaults in an announcement on Sunday, the Coordinator-General and Director of Public Affairs of Ketu Advancement Forum, Kunle Abiose and Williams Olayode, blamed Fulani herders for attacking "our local farms, slashing down palm trees for their cows to eat."
The announcement peruses: "Shockingly when the nearby individuals went to examine the harm done to their farm, the herders again started shooting at them with local people supporting discharge injuries of differing degrees. "This occurrence was all around recorded at the Police Area Command Office, Ilaro.
"However, the area is hot as territories under Ikotun, Ologiri, Akeru, Ilukan, Ijege and Ajibode have been the subject of the herders attack.
The Governor can never again keep on turning blind eyes and hard of hearing ears to the strained circumstance.
"Our farmers have been sent far from their homesteads, more than 30 elementary schools have been closed down, wellbeing offices shut and financial exercises incapacitated.
"Its peak began on tenth of December 2017 when innocent matured ladies were assaulted and macheted in the middle of Moro and Eegelu towns for their refusal to submit themselves to be gang raped by merciless herders".
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