Residents and some monarchs of Ketu-speaking villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State have lamented that they were brutalised by soldiers who escorted herdsmen to graze in their communities. In separate interviews with The Nation, the residents narrated that the soldiers, numbering about 10, flogged them for daring to prevent the herders from grazing. Narrating their experience in a petition, the traditional rulers said the herdsmen confirmed that they invited the soldiers to intimidate, harass, and beat them. “That the said Seye Mulero further cited past killings, maiming and destruction of farms to buttress his point. The herders asked the soldiers to also deal with them.”

Source: Punch January 23, 2021 18:00 UTC