Bandits imposing taxes on farmers to plant, harvest in Northern Nigeria — ACF

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, hasraised an alarm that bandits and terrorists are imposing taxes connected farmers successful the Northern portion of the country.

The National Publicity Secretary of the Forum, Professor Tukur Baba, exposed the concern on Saturday when helium appeared arsenic a impermanent successful an interrogation connected Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’.

He was reacting to the upsurge of insecurity bedevilling Nigeria and the North successful particular, lamenting that farmers besides wage bandits to harvest their crops from the farm.

“Bandits are not lone imposing taxes connected farmers for entree to their farms, farmers are besides paying to harvest their crops.

“When the quality from the satellite nutrient programme came out, astir of america were not surprised.

“The Arewa Consultative Forum for the past fewer years has been drafting attraction to the dire socioeconomic challenges facing the population.

“Government needs to onslaught the fundamentals of insecurity and amusement supremacy,” helium said.

Bandits imposing taxes connected farmers to plant, harvest successful Northern Nigeria — ACF