Adebisi Fatima Sogbade
Three farmers have been arraigned before in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, over alleged killing of 33 cows who ate their farmland at the herders’ settlement.
Poice docked the three farmers — Rashidi Kareem; 60, Dele Julius; 41 and Musa Rasaki; 65, all of Kunbi Village, Akinyele, Ibadan, with conspiracy and unlawful killing of cows.
The Prosecuting Counsel, Sgt. Akeem Akinloye, told the court that the farmers conspired to commit the offence.
Akinloye said that the men willfully and unlawfully killed 33 cows, valued at N20 million, property of both Alhaji Aliyu Abubakar and Alhaji Muhammed Abubakar.
He added that the offence was committed on Nov. 27 between 1 a.m. and 6.40 a.m. at Kunbi Village, Akinyele area of Ibadan.
He explained that even though the cows ate from the farmland during the day, the farmers went and slaughtered the cows in the night, an offence that contravened sections 450 and 517 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State 2000.
However, the farmers pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olabisi Ogunkanmi, granted them bail in the sum of N1 million each, with two sureties each in like sum.
Ogunkanmi said one of the sureties must be close relative of the defendants, and adjourned the matter until Jan. 19, 2026, for settlement. -(NAN)
Source; PM News