A viral video shows a violent confrontation between herders and officials at Marke forest in Nigeria. The state government reportedly allocated the forest to a firm for rice farming, but the herders claim they inherited the land and have used it for centuries. The herders protested, demanding their right to stay on the land.
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“How can you just come overnight and ask us to leave our homes? We won’t accept this,” one of the protesters said in the video. The chairperson of the group in the state, Umar Kabiru, told PREMIUM TIMES that the association learnt that the government donated the land to a rice milling company.Support journalism driven by facts, created by Nigerians for Nigerians. Our thorough, researched reporting relies on the support of readers like you.“As the leader of the Fulani in the state, this is a disturbing development for me because such incidents normally lead to crises in communities.
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