A cassava farmer at Oviri-Olomu community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, Pastor Monday Eseoghene, is at loggerheads with Fulani herdsmen in the community, whose cows have reportedly destroyed his vast cassava farm worth millions of naira.

Narrating his ordeal to journalists in Warri on Tuesday, the aggrieved farmer lamented that cows levelled the entire cassava farm measuring 200 by 200 feet, thus subjecting his family to colossal loss.

Eseoghene alleged that the health of his wife, Mrs Esther, deteriorated when she saw the extent of damage done to their farm by the suspected Fulani herdsmen and their cows.

“I had to rush her home immediately,” he said.

The farmer told newsmen that the herdsmen and their cows fled the community immediately after the havoc was perpetrated on the cassava farm.

He, however, insisted that traces of the footprints of the cows and the herdsmen were still indelible at the cassava farm.

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Eseoghene said he had officially reported the matter to the President-General of Oviri-Olomu community and would do same to the police and other security agencies to enable them to go there and see the extent of damage done by the cattle.

But the leader of the Fulani herdsmen in the community simply identified as Garba could not be reached as of the time of filing this report.

While noting that the herdsmen do not own any land with the indigenes and Oviri-Olomu community, Eseoghene lamented that the herdsmen had destroyed his means of survival.

The cleric called on Delta State Government, the Ohworode of Olomu Kingdom, His Majesty Ogbon Ogoni-Oghoro I and the Ughelli South Local Government chairman to help him and his family to locate the fleeing Fulani herdsmen to settle him by way of compensation for the damages done to the cassava farm.