How A Journalist, Yakubu Busari Escapes Death, As Herdsmen Attacked Him With Machetes, Stones
Yakubu Busari
Yakubu Busari, a journalist, has narrated how he escaped death when a herdsman invaded his farm at Agingi, close to Dutse Kura Cemetery Road, in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State on Friday, 11th of September, 2026.
At about 12 pm, the owner of the House close to the Agingi burial grounds, farming inside the plot, was shocked that, before the attack ,the Fulani boy forcefully brought his cows to graze on the farm .
According to him, they usually lead their flock to destroy all that he planted, including neighbors’ farms, which he strongly condemned and complained about.
“so late,last week ,my Neighbors farmland was affected on the farm on that fateful day ,when the suspected herdsman invaded again ,the residents flee in different directions without talking to them because they said the natives said they leave in peace with them.
The obviously traumatized journalist farmer who said he escaped assault with stones attacks by whisker said that he reported to nearby security outfit.
“My farm was overrun by the herder who brought out a machete and ran to attack me with it; later ran into the nearby buses.
“For some time now, I have been embroiled in heated battles with the Fulani herdsmen who always bring down my fence of the farmland and forcefully bring their cows to graze there .
“This does not apply to me alone , those Fulani who freely graze usually destroy cash crops belonging to the residents farmers as well as killing and raping of Women who are mostly residents of Agingi in Bassa LGA of Plateau in the recent time “, he narrated
Yakubu Wuyep called on the council Chairman, Dr Joshua Sunday Riti, and Governor Caleb Mutfwang to take decisive steps in addressing the alleged excesses of the herdsmen.
According to him, “it is worrisome that fresh attacks on farmers by some Fulani herdsmen loomed and also claiming several lives and houses ,crops including farmlands worth millions of naira destroyed or burned down as the case may be ,as farmers crops alleged destroy .
The herders openly graze in people farmlands as rural dwellers while we appeal to government should do something to stem the ugly tide “he added.
The Plateau State Government should come to the aid and perform the primary objectives of responsible governance and make a constitution that can resolve the incessant attacks by herdsmen.
The persistent herdsmen attacks on farmers, he pointed out, have in no small measure deprived the country of its first sources of income.
