Kidnappers target farmers to mar food security says Madlion

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”