Vice-Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Prof. Sulyman
Abdulkareem, has decried the destruction of the university’s multi-million
naira research and training farms by cattle illegally grazing on the campus and
poisoning the dam with chemicals.
According to the university weekly bulletin
issued, yesterday, the management of the institution last Thursday held a
security meeting with the leaders of the 11 Fulani settlements on the
university land. The publication quoted the vice-chancellor as saying that sundry
economic trees’ plantations were destroyed by cattle illegally grazing on the
vast land of the institution. The meeting was attended by representatives of
law enforcement agencies, comprising Nigeria Police Force,Department of State
Service, DSS, and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. At the
meeting held at the institution’s auditorium basement, Prof. Abdulkareem
disclosed that the university management would no longer tolerate illegal
grazing of cows on its land. He, therefore, told the illegal settlers, who have
started building permanent structures to vacate the university land in the
interest of peace. According to him, this is coming almost a year after the
university authority first issued a quit notice to the illegal settlers. The management
recalls that the University management had on April 26, 2017 handed down a
seven-day ultimatum to the Fulani herdsmen encroaching on the University land
to quit the campus, but the quit notice was never complied with. The Chairman
of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Usman Adamu, told the
university management that the herdsmen destroying the university farm land
were not living in the community. He said there were other ethnic groups
embarking on illegal activities like logging, and were not differentiated from
the Fulani.
Vice-Chancellor of
University of Ilorin, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, has decried the
destruction of the university’s multi-million naira research and
training farms by cattle illegally grazing on the campus and poisoning
the dam with chemicals.
According to the university weekly bulletin issued, yesterday, the
management of the institution last Thursday held a security meeting with
the leaders of the 11 Fulani settlements on the university land.
The publication quoted the vice-chancellor as saying that sundry
economic trees’ plantations were destroyed by cattle illegally grazing
on the vast land of the institution.
The meeting was attended by representatives of law enforcement agencies,
comprising Nigeria Police Force,Department of State Service, DSS, and
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.
At the meeting held at the institution’s auditorium basement, Prof.
Abdulkareem disclosed that the university management would no longer
tolerate illegal grazing of cows on its land.
He, therefore, told the illegal settlers, who have started building
permanent structures to vacate the university land in the interest of
peace.
According to him, this is coming almost a year after the university
authority first issued a quit notice to the illegal settlers.
The management recalls that the University management had on April 26,
2017 handed down a seven-day ultimatum to the Fulani herdsmen
encroaching on the University land to quit the campus, but the quit
notice was never complied with.
The Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Usman
Adamu, told the university management that the herdsmen destroying the
university farm land were not living in the community.
He said there were other ethnic groups embarking on illegal activities
like logging, and were not differentiated from the Fulani.
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