Ondo Amotekun Arrests Underage Herders, 49 Cows

Operatives of the Ondo State Chapter of the Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corps have arrested two underage herders and at least 49 cows.

Africa Today News, New York gathered that the Father of the underage herders, Ibrahim Musa, 52, was also arrested.

According to the regional security outfit, they were arrested for flouting the state government’s directive banning the use of underage herders and harassing a septuagenarian in Kajola area of Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo state.

The teenagers were said to have threatened Mrs Victoria Ajayi, 70, with a cutlass.

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Mrs Ajayi said it was her grandson that informed her that cows have invaded their farm.

She narrated; ‘That evening, I was resting after taking my drugs because I was under medication for hypertension. My little boy called and said there were cows in our farm. I saw a man standing afar, while the two little boys were with the cows.

 ‘I asked them to call on their father as they gave deaf ears to my words and looked at me angrily.

‘As I was trying to make the children understand they should take the cows out of my farm, one of them brought out cutlass and pointed it to my face. Then I knew I was in for a big trouble.

‘I quickly called my little grandson and went inside and shut my door. They were there for hours as I watch the cows ate my vegetables, pepper and also watched how they dug my heaps of yams with their legs and eat my long-awaited ready-to-be harvested yams.

‘I quickly reached for my drugs because I have been managing high blood pressure for some time. I quickly took my boy and went out through the back door where they could not see me because I never knew their next move as we are alone in the house’.

AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK