Suspected herdsmen have attacked and injured some officers of the Ondo State Safety Community Company, also called Amotekun in Akure, the state capital.
LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that the incident occurred on Friday after Amotekun corps arrested some cows which allegedly destroyed farmlands in Osi and Igboba Communities within the North native authorities space of the state.
It was additional learnt that after arresting cows numbering about 120, the Corps was taking the arrested cows to the state headquarters of the Amotekun Command in Akure when the herders accosted them on the Akure-Ado expressway and attacked them.
A supply advised our correspondent that, “As they have been taking the arrested cows to Amotekun headquarters in Akure, on reaching the Sango space (of Akure) the herders got here out with harmful weapons and attacked the officers to stop them from taking the cows away.”
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Ondo Amotekun, Jimoh Adeniken, confirmed the incident.
Adeniken disclosed that, “Upon fixed complaints from many farmers within the Igoba and Osi areas of Akure North Native Authorities because the sixth of Could 2024 until date, the company of Amotekun corps from the Headquarters in Alagbaka Akure, responded immediately dated fifth of July 2024, at about 1600 hours.
“Through the operation, the corps surveillance group was led to the farms by the homeowners. On getting there, they met over 100 and twenty cows ravaging the farms and there was no one with the cows.
“Decided to implement the anti-open grazing regulation of the State, the operatives of the Amotekun corps moved the cows out of the farms, and whereas passing by the Sango Space, at Igoba, alongside Ado Highway in Akure, teams of armed Fulani herdsmen attacked the officers with stones, bottles, cutlasses, and weapons.
“Thereafter, the corps retreated based mostly on the order from the state Headquarters of the Amotekun corps.’’
