Obasanjo Reacts To Burning of his Farm in Benue

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reacted to the burning of his 2,420 hectares of land farm at Howe in Aliade area of Gwer East Local Government of Benue State, at the weekend.

The highly revered statesman described incident as a bad development, noting that the arsonist will be fished out by security agents.

The ex-president had acquired about 2,420 hectares of farmland in the community, where he planted fruits such as mango and orange.
Some indigenes, who claimed they were not compensated for the land, had allegedly set the farm on fire, beat up and robbed the firefighters deployed in the area to put out the fire.

Reacting in a release by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Tuesday, Obasanjo said “the local and state governments, including the security agencies in the state, have taken up the issue, with a view to fishing out the perpetrators and prosecution”.

The statement was titled, ‘Obasanjo condemns burning of farm in Benue.’

The former President also thanked those who had called him to identify with him on the incident, stressing that, despite the huge loss on the farmland as a result of the inferno, there was death recorded, and this is gladdening to note.

mango and orange.

Some indigenes, who claimed they were not compensated for the land, had allegedly set the farm on fire, beat up and robbed the firefighters deployed in the area to put out the fire.

Reacting in a release by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Tuesday, Obasanjo said “the local and state governments, including the security agencies in the state, have taken up the issue, with a view to fishing out the perpetrators and prosecution”.

The statement was titled, ‘Obasanjo condemns burning of farm in Benue.’

The former President also thanked those who had called him to identify with him on the incident, stressing that, despite the huge loss on the farmland as a result of the inferno, there was death recorded, and this is gladdening to note.