An alarm has been raised over the alleged invasion of farmlands owned by the Federal Polytechnic in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State by some suspected Fulani herdsmen.
This claim was made by authorities of the institution, who said this has led to the destruction crops and other farm produce.
At a pre-convocation press conference held at the school, Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr Taiwo Akande, said several millions of Naira was lost to the incident and urged the Federal Government to quickly intervene in the crisis.
“This menace of these herdsmen has been most destructive on many of our demonstration farms and pilot plantations.
“It is most painful to also disclose that some of the pilot farm projects, academic, research demonstration farms and recently established plantations on which we pinned our hope for future revenue enhancement have been destroyed one after the other by these people.
“They will bring their animals to the campus environment and eat up every green thing in sight,” she said at the briefing.
According to her, the police and eminent Nigerians like Afe Babalola (SAN) whose university is located directly opposite the polytechnic had intervened to stop further damage but to no avail.
Akande noted that this has happened repeatedly for more than two years.
