Mr. Shedrack Madlion |
A commercial
farmer along Abuja-Kaduna road, Mr. Shedrack Madlion the Executive Director Safari 54, has alerted that activities
of Kidnappers are being targeted at farmers in the villages of the state saying
this may impede food security of the nation if something urgently is not done.
Speaking at
the AIT television programme on the impact of kidnappers’ activities on the
farming communities where farmers are being captured for ransome in turns, Mr.
Madlion said the local council government and the traditional leaders must be
responsive to ensuring security of local villages with the use of vigilantes in
partnership with policemen pointing about 40-50% farmers had deserted
cultivation due to fear of becoming a victim.
Mr. Madlion
believed that the few Boro Haram that have escaped from the North East and
herdsmen from the neighbouring countries are the suspected people behind this
evil menace in Kaduna state saying the killing of victims is already threatening
our food security.
He pointed
that some arrests in the past have revealed some Fulani herdsmen as
perpetrators without much action taken against them saying in the “community
where my farm is located, the head there was kidnapped. The local government is
not doing their job very well. What is the role of Local Government Council as
40-50% farmers have deserted farming for their lives".
He added
that “if anybody will tell me a time would come that I will not be bordered
about herbicide, pesticide, fertilizer and improved seeds, but rather on live
security matter, I will say it is impossible. I am worried about the ways six
farmers are kidnapped and many others that have been killed in the state. All
this are threat to food security if nothing urgently is not done to curb it”
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