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

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.