Fulani Herdsmen Destroy Poly’s Multimillion Naira Farms, Rector Cries Out

Authorities of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, has cried out that suspected Fulani herdsmen had destroyed its farmlands.

Rector of the institution, Dr.Taiwo Akande, said another serious danger was land grabbers who encroach on the polytechnic’s land with the intentions of claiming some portions of it allotted to the polytechnic upon its establishment in 1980.


She said at a pre-convocation press conference in Ado Ekiti that the institution had lost several millions of naira in monetary terms as a result of the menace.

Akande called on the federal government to intervene as the police and eminent Nigerian like Chief Afe Babalola whose university is located directly opposite the polytechnic had tried to curb further damage but to no avail.

“This menace of Fulani cattle rearers has been most destructive to
many of our demonstration farms and pilot plantations,” she said.

“It is most painful to also disclose that some of the pilot farm
projects,academic, research demonstration farms and recently
established plantations on which we pinned our hope of future revenue
enhancement have been destroyed one after the other by the Fulani
cattle rearers

“They will bring their animals to the campus environment and eat up
every green thing in sight.”