Checks had shown that farmers in Zamfara especially peasant farmers may not be able to go to their farms even this year following the resurface of the activities of the bandits in the State.
The checks have revealed that the activities of the bandits have reached another level and even a two-year-old child was not spared.
Bandits, who recently abducted over 40 innocent elderly people in Magami village of Maradun local government, are now going from village to village on their bikes, carrying three persons each to attack farmers who are there preparing their portions for the year’s farming activities.
It was also reliably gathered that the hoodlums did not stop there as many of them are now in the habit of destroying the seeds that have already been sowed.
Others continue the checks, are trapping people, especially women who are going to fetch water in outskirt of their respective villages and kidnap them, and in the process, some of them die.
Speaking to our reporter with regard to the painful situation, a number of people especially aggrieved farmers expressed their dissatisfaction over the situation.
One of them who also said he is in his 70s, and a father of eleven, told our reporter that even last year he was not opportune to farm and he had to sell some of his effects to buy food stuffs. Alhaji Garba Maidamma narrated: “I was about to lose everything including my life when I realised that I would not be allowed to farm.
