A youth leader in Delta State, Comrade Austine Odedede, has attributed the soaring cost of food commodities across the state to “insecurity, particularly on the farmlands.
He said this on Wednesday at a media briefing in Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the State.
The youth leader raised the alarm that “many farmers in the region have been denied access to their farmlands because of the activities of herders who incessantly molest women, and girls and kill their husbands.
“The prevailing insecurity, particularly on the farmlands, on the heels of the influx of herdsmen, have now become unbearable and this is the bane of food shortage in the markets”, he said.
The youth leader called on the Delta State Government and the Federal Government to, “as a matter of urgency, come to the aid of farmers in the region.”
He however commended the Delta State Police Command and other security agencies notably the state command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, “particularly for the roles they played recently in the recovery of corpses of the fallen gallant policemen who were ambushed and killed in Agadama/Uwheru bush in Ughelli North LGA by suspected herdsmen.”
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