Many injured as herders, Amotekun operatives clash in Ondo

In Sango, Igoba, Akure, the state capital, agents of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also referred to as the Amotekun Corps, were involved in a violent altercation with suspected herdsmen over the weekend.

According to information obtained by ZINGTIE, the attack happened as Amotekun agents were implementing the state’s ban on open grazing.

Some of the operatives were severely macheted during the attack, and the ensuing violent altercation caused the Ado-Akure road to be closed to traffic for several hours.

When the operatives were attacked, it was because the farmers in the region had called in alarm, reporting that the herders’ animals had destroyed their crops and farmlands.

On August 13, 2021, the late Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, the state’s governor, signed a bill outlawing the practice of animals grazing in the open throughout the state.

The Amotekun Corps Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Adeniken, confirmed the development and revealed that in spite of the severe attack they suffered, the operators sent on the mission showed bravery and tenacity in defusing the tense situation.

“During the operation, the corps surveillance team was led to the farms by the owners. On getting there, they met over one hundred and twenty cows ravaging the farms, and there was nobody with the cows.

“Determined to enforce the anti-open grazing law of the state, the operatives of the Amotekun corps moved the cows out of the farms, and while passing by the Sango Area, at Igoba, along Ado Road in Akure, groups of armed Fulani herdsmen attacked the officers with stones, bottles, cutlasses and guns.

“Thereafter, the corps retreated based on the order from the state headquarters of the Amotekun corps.

“Furthermore, the assailants continued to throw stones and bottles till they invaded the main road and hacked one of the Amotekun officers to a coma while attempting to disarm the officers and men of the Amotekun corps.

“Sequentially, the officers of the Amotekun Corps shot into the air to dislodge them and move back to the office.”

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