The police said the herders have been fingered in spate of kidnappings around Ibadan while collecting ransoms from their victims.
Friday’s incident occurred four days after gunmen also suspected to be herdsmen shot and killed a man named Ademola Afolayan on a poultry farm in Ikere-Ekiti.
Senator Utazi was reacting to an attack on Opanda-Nimbo farmers in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state.
Police have ordered herdsmen and other road users to seek alternative routes as President Muhammadu Buhari visits Katsina today.
Popular Islamic cleric Muideen Bello said Nigerians are in “one chance” under President Buhari as there is no guarantee of safety or security. He said government is overwhelmed.
Amid attacks on farmlands, kidnapping, and killing, Nigerian farmers have begged security forces for protection against killer herdsmen.
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana says justice minister Abubakar Malami is misleading President Muhammadu Buhari regarding gazetted grazing routes for herdsmen.
A Central Africa official declared: “we can’t keep allowing foreigners to come and kill Central Africans on their land.”
Igbos in Delta have backed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s anti-open grazing law in the state.
President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted Governor Samuel Ortom is right about him being Fulani herdsmen’s kinsman.
