BYM demands immediate halt to open grazing after herders allegedly destroyed 100 farmlands

The Berom Youth Moulders-Association (BYM), has called connected the Plateau State authorities to instantly halt unfastened grazing successful the authorities aft herders allegedly destroyed implicit 100 farmlands successful Jol assemblage successful Riyom Local Government Area.

In a connection issued connected Thursday by the National President of BYM, Barr. Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, the relation expressed outrage and condemnation implicit what it described arsenic the calculated and implicit demolition of implicit 100 irrigation farmlands wrong 2 days betwixt 21st and 22nd April, 2026, by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

Mwantiri said reports from the assemblage confirmed that implicit 50 hectares of cultivated irrigation farmland on with a assortment of thriving crops were intentionally invaded and grazed upon by Fulani herders who drove their cattle into the farms.

The BYM President stated that the willful demolition of the farmlands not lone wiped retired the superior root of livelihood for galore families but besides threatens nutrient information and economical stableness successful that country and the authorities successful general.

“While we admit and admit the efforts of the Special Task Force (STF) successful arresti...