February 01, (THEWILL) – Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the burning of his mango farm by unknown hoodlums in Gwer Local Government of Benue State.
The hoodlums were said to have set the farm ablaze which burnt almost half of the farm covering 139 hectares.
The Gwer East Local Government Chairman, Mr Emmanuel Ortsega said the act was a deliberate sabotage by the arsonists.
But, Obasanjo, while reacting to the incident in a statement by his Media Aide Kehinde Akinyemi on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, described it as a bad development.
According to the ex-president the burning of his 2,420 hectares of land farm at Howe in Aliade area of Gwer East Local Government of Benue State, at the weekend, was unfortunate.
The octogenarian said that both the state and local governments, as well as the security agencies in the state had taken up the issue with a view to fishing out the perpetrators and prosecute them.
He thanked those who had called him to identify with him on the incident, noting that it gladdened his heart that despite the huge loss on the farm land due the inferno, there was no life lost.
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