Count Igala/Bassa Race Out of Proposed Fulani Colony, Senator Aidoko Tackles Kogi Gov.

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By Yusuf Abubakar.

Senator Atai Aidoko Ali (Kogi East) has berated Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello’s move to adopt the Cattle Colony policy of the Federal Government.
Aidoko, while reacting Bello’s request to make Kogi the pilot state for the Cattle Colony policy, told the governor to leave his Igala/Bassa constituency out of his proposal.
According to the Senator, farmers in Kogi East need more land spaces for farming because Kogi workers who were denied of salaries and pensions and those recently sacked by the state government without due process have all gone into subsistence farming. He insisted that there will be no land for such arrangement.
“In Kogi East, we don’t even have enough land for ‎farming activities as my people are predominantly farmers, so you don’t give what you don’t have at all.
“Having discovered that my people have leveraged on diverse economic trees like Mango, Cashew, Palm oil, Banana, and others, the state government has now devised another means to ensure that the middle class are in a perpetual hardship and poverty by embracing cattle colony.
“It is on record that fulani herdsmen attacked and killed many people recently in neighbouring Benue state and sometimes ago in a town around Omala. Instead of empathizing with the bereaved, Kogi state government is celebrating and ushering in same persons alleged to have killed in these area.
“We have instructed our peasant farmers and village settlers to be at alert and protect themselves to avoid a recurrence in the state.
“We are not unaware of damages the Fulani herdsmen have inflicted on the people of Kogi East in Omala, Ofu, Bassa, Igalamela/Odolu, Olamaboro, Dekina and its environs. All hands must be on deck to nip this politically motivated step in the bud,” he said.

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