Oba Solaja told the council that his palace had daily been inundated with complaints by the victims of the Fulani herdsmen.
He said, "Every day, my people run to me with complaints about Fulani herdsmen destroying their farms. I always ask them to report to the police because we don't want the people to take laws into their hands."
Also in his own submission, Chief Adebayo Adedayo, who represented the Japara people, alleged that armed herdsmen had been involved in the raping of women in the area.
For the people of Ossissa, an agrarian community in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State, this is not the best of time. The community's major means of livelihood is production of cassava and yam. But the invasion of the community by the gun-wielding Fulani herdsmen is affecting their farming activities.
The traditional ruler of the village, Okpara Uku Ijibeze, said his people were no longer going to farm for fear of being attacked by herdsmen.
He said, "Our people are no longer going to the farm for fear of being attacked by herdsmen. We have been reporting to the police, but they are not doing anything."
Prof. Clement Adebooye of Agronomy/Crop Physiology Department at the Osun State University, Osogbo, described the activities of herdsmen as constituting security threat and great danger to the lives of Nigerians.
Adebooye said Australia had the largest number of cattle in the world but the problem of destruction of farm by cattle was not common there.
He said, "Unregulated activities of nomadic cattle rearers constitute great menace to farmers and the people in the country. The government should introduce regulated grazing system to solve this problem."
The Acting Chairman, Miyetti Allah, a Fulani herdsmen group in Niger State, Alhaji Adamu Tsauni, alleged that most of the grazing reserves in Kaduna and Kwara states had been taken away by governments coupled with the problem of cattle rustling which force his members to flee the state.
According to him, the cultivation of the cattle routes by farmers was another reason responsible for the mass movement of the pastoralists to their neighbouring countries.
On the alleged killings of some people in Shiroro and Rafi local government areas by Fulani, Tsauni called on them to desist from taking the law into their hands.
The state Acting Chairman Miyetti Allah advised his members to embrace dialogue rather than confrontation in resolving differences.
