{"id":64941,"date":"2025-04-27T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64941"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:41:54","slug":"agatu-orders-fulani-herdsmen-to-leave-farmlands-within-forty-eight-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/27\/agatu-orders-fulani-herdsmen-to-leave-farmlands-within-forty-eight-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Agatu Orders Fulani Herdsmen to Leave Farmlands Within Forty Eight Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of Agatu Local Government Area in Benue State, James Melvin Ejeh, has given Fulani herdsmen a firm forty eight hour ultimatum to vacate all farmlands across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Ejeh issued the order during a critical stakeholders meeting held on Saturday April twenty six at the council secretariat in Obagaji, aimed at easing rising tensions between farmers and herders ahead of the planting season.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing traditional rulers, Fulani leaders, youth groups, and security agencies, Ejeh stressed that farming is the lifeblood of Agatu\u2019s economy and must be protected at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur farmers must have free and safe access to their lands. We cannot allow anything to disrupt this planting season,\u201d Ejeh declared.<\/p>\n<p>While the area has enjoyed relative peace, the Chairman emphasized that securing farming activities remains a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic turn, the Ado of the Fulani community pleaded for a one week extension to allow herders time to relocate.<\/p>\n<p>Ejeh accepted the request under strict conditions of non violence and order, with local youth groups pledging full support.<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives from the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services praised the peaceful dialogue and pledged their backing to ensure smooth enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional leaders, including Chief John Agidani representing the Och\u2019Agatu, applauded Ejeh\u2019s leadership and urged all parties to maintain the fragile peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Chairman of Agatu Local Government Area in Benue State, James Melvin Ejeh, has given Fulani herdsmen a firm forty eight hour ultimatum to vacate all farmlands across the region. Ejeh issued the order during a critical stakeholders meeting held on Saturday April twenty six at the council secretariat in Obagaji, aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64943,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64941\/revisions\/64943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}