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Herdsmen attack Ondo Amotekun operatives
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The Ondo State Security Network Agency, popularly known as Amotekun Corps, says its operatives were attacked in the Igoba community, near Akure in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The agency said the operatives were attacked by the herdsmen while they were enforcing the anti-open grazing law operational in the state.
The spokesperson for the Amotekun Corps in the state, Jimoh Adeniken, while confirming the attack in a statement on Saturday, said:
“Upon constant complaints from many farmers in the Igoba and Osi areas of Akure North Local Government since the 6th of May 2024 till date, the agency of Amotekun corps from the Headquarters in Alagbaka Akure, responded today dated 5th of July 2024, at about 1600 hours,” he said.
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“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.”
He said the operatives escaped to the major road while the herdsmen continued to pelt them with stones.
