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A new report by SB Morgan Intelligence has revealed that farmers across Northern Nigeria pay as much as N100,000 to access their farmlands during the planting or harvest season.

Failure to do so usually results in forfeiture of harvest, abduction or even death.
This revelation mirrors the security situation
across Northern-Nigeria where non-state
actors hold sway in the absence of state
security officials.

According to the report, bandits in some
communities in Kaduna, farmers have been
forced to pay between N70,000 and
N100,000 for permission to farm. This reality not only compounds the food security
situation in the country but the general
security of the region where abduction have
become rife.


The report stated, “In Kaduna, communities like Kidandan, Galadimawa Kerawa, Sabon Layi, Sabon Birni and Ruma have been significantly impacted. Residents in these areas have reported paying substantial sums
ranging from N70,000 to N100,000 to bandits for permission to farm, with additional payments required for harvesting. Those who resist these demands face severe consequences, including abduction, murder or confiscation of their produce.”

Different forms of payment to bandits

In Zamfara, payments to bandits depends on
the type of crop being planted with more
expensive crop’s farmers paying the highest.
For example, rice farmers in some LGAs
according to the study coughed out around
N120,000 as farm levies to bandits while
guinea corn farmers were made to pay just
N50,000.

Furthermore, the report noted that payments
to bandits could either be in cash or from
proceeds of harvests as during the harvest
season, the levies are usually higher. Bandits
have also engaged tacit slavery forcing
communities to grow crops and sell crops for
them.

Between November 2020 and November
2023, farmers across the North-west states
were levied around N224.92 million by
different groups of bandits operating in the
region. The abductions and in some cases
deaths of victims have forced many to flee
their home communities.

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The dire insecurity situation across North-
west Nigeria- one of Nigeria’s major food
belts reverberates across different aspects of
the economy. First, it leads to increased food
prices and shortfall in food supply and also
deters further investment in agricultural
ventures across the region.

In recent times, Nigerians have been battling a food security crisis with food inflation soaring to 35.41% as of January 2023. With significant
population living below the poverty line and wages staying stagnant, hunger have become rife with protests and attacks on food trucks and warehouses becoming more common especially in the north.

Cadre Harmonisé (CH) in its analysis projected that around 26 million Nigerians will face hunger during the lean season of 2024 (June to August) while the World Bank in its food security report stated that seven states across the North will experience severe food crisis in 2024.

https://nairametrics.com/2024/03/06/farmers-in-northern-nigeria-pay-bandits-up-to-n100000-for-permission-to-farm-report/

If Obi talks about how insecurity is affecting the price of food, the vultures of Tinubulation will gather to insult him.

Elrufai said that this guys are business men …

I’m beginning to believe

"Tinubu will handle the economy, Shettima will handle security."

Oya nah 🤷

Tinubu is asleep , shiit can happen

Pure evil.

Most of these farmers have no other skill other than to farm.

It is not just a job to them but also where they get their own food.

These bandits are not ideological neither are they fighting a cause.

That is why I know very well that it's very powerful external forces that are backing them towards expelling rural farmers off their land so as to get Nigeria to give large swaths of land to western corporations to grow GMO crops.

AntiZikist:
Pure evil.

Most of these farmers have no other skill other than to farm.

It is not just a job to them but also where they get their own food.

These bandits are not ideological neither are they fighting a cause.

That is why I know very well that it's very powerful external forces that are backing them towards expelling rural farmers off their land so as to get Nigeria to give large swaths of land to western corporations to grow GMO crops.

Your Tinubu is inept. Stop blaming other people.

Fulani herdsmen aka bandits should be eliminated on the spot whenever they are captured by security agents otherwise they will be reintroduced into society by corrupt Fulani judges or given amnesty by Fulani governors in the name of repentant terrorists.

That's APC work

Not bad at all. Is M M ticket and they're brothers too.

So mind your business , we must pepper Igbo

Some pay up to 30 milli during harvest time

MasterJayJay:
If Obi talks about how insecurity is affecting the price of food, the vultures of Tinubulation will gather to insult him.

Why was Peter Obi not talking before? people like Reno Omokri and Sowore had never been silent, so their voices are not strange, but Peter Obi now talking when he was mute during Jonathan and Buhari shows he is filled with wrath, anger and indignation because he lost shamefully during election, he should shun bitterness and unnecessary criticism.

Even more than that

MasterJayJay:
If Obi talks about how insecurity is affecting the price of food, the vultures of Tinubulation will gather to insult him.

😂 Lol, the North should invest in drug trafficking.

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This disheartening

O Lord! Let thunder strike these terrorists and bandits to death!

instead of government to help these farmers deal with this bandit issue, they are looking for food farmers are selling to neighbouring countries

EzeChukwuIgbo:
Why was Peter Obi not talking before? people like Reno Omokri and Sowore had never been silent, so their voices are not strange, but Peter Obi now talking when he was mute during Jonathan and Buhari shows he is filled with wrath, anger and indignation because he lost shamefully during election, he should shun bitterness and unnecessary criticism.

shutdown!!

Terrorists are doing promo, but Obi is your problem.

Una go open mouth waaa!

Apc is a very big curse to Nigeria but u won't believe

Is there anybody in this country that does not know that insecurity is impacting farming in Nigeria? So, why continue to state the obvious? That is why he is called lamba king because he understands the problems the same way uninformed folks understand it and not any better.

What Nigeria needs are solution givers not some fake playing to the gallery.

Now to the post, the government has to really do more to protect these farmers.

MasterJayJay:
If Obi talks about how insecurity is affecting the price of food, the vultures of Tinubulation will gather to insult him.

The federal government needs to put security personnel in every farm land in the country... If not the food hunger crises will increased than before.Bandit been paid..... May God help this country.

Person Way Build Lagos Don Scatter Nigeria!

MasterJayJay:

Your Tinubu is inept. Stop blaming other people.

And your Obi will never chook his mouth into this matter.


That one only knows how to chook mouth inside Lagos and SW internal affairs.

Let him comment on the insecurity in the north .

Isnt that Tinubu's fault?

9jatriot:
Is there anybody in this country that does not know that insecurity is impacting farming in Nigeria? So, why continue to state the obvious? That is why he is called lamba king because he understands the problems the same way uninformed folks understand it and not any better.

What Nigeria needs are solution givers not some fake playing to the gallery.

Now to the post, the government has to really do more to protect these farmers.

Tinubulation vultures believe APC has defeated terrorists.

Una dey fight terrorism with propaganda.

Park one side.

EzeChukwuIgbo:
Why was Peter Obi not talking before? people like Reno Omokri and Sowore had never been silent, so their voices are not strange, but Peter Obi now talking when he was mute during Jonathan and Buhari shows he is filled with wrath, anger and indignation because he lost shamefully during election, he should shun bitterness and unnecessary criticism.

what has Reno never been silent about?

is it Peter Obi's "wrath, anger and indignation because he lost shamefully during election" that is responsible for what farmers are going thru with bandits?

is it Peter Obi's "wrath, anger and indignation because he lost shamefully during election" that is responsible for the high cost of living and hardship that you and millions of Nigerians are going through as a result of Tinubu's woeful policies?

is it Peter Obi's "wrath, anger and indignation because he lost shamefully during election" that is responsible for Tinubu display of gross incompetence in handling the affairs of this country?

Why this people no tackle this issue of insecurity once. He be like say dem sef dey get share for the money those bandit get from people and farmers

Smh, why not continue to take the fight to them like this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCzRgStJ_4 ?