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Sunday, 6 September 2015

Army Bans Use Of Horses, Donkeys In Borno

Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima

THE Nigerian Army has banned the use of horses and donkeys by the general public, particularly traditional rulers in Borno State.

The Army said the ban was necessary as members of terrorist group, Boko Haram, have turned to the animals as their means of transportation to attack and killed people in the state.

The ban was announced yesterday, in Maiduguri when spokesman of 7 Division of Nigerian Army, Col. Tukur Gusau, was supervising the destruction of over 2, 000 cartons of fish and meat seized from Boko Haram at Maiduguri destruction site.

He said the terrorists have resorted to the use of horses and called on the general public, especially traditional rulers to stop ridding on horses until further notice.

“Anyone found using a horse would be considered an insurgent,” he warned.

He disclosed that 2,000 cartons of smoke fish and dry meat that the insurgents carted away from innocent traders were seized for destruction.

“We invited you to witness the burning of N2, 000 cartons of smoked fish and meat, which they used in funding their terrorist activities in this state,” said Gusau

He therefore; called on the general public to assist and support “Operation Lafiya Dole” by promptly reporting suspicious movement of vehicles or persons loaded with supplies meant for Boko Haram terrorists.

Flood destroys 200 rice farms in Warwade, Dutse

The Village Head of Warwade, Alhaji Ado Musa, has said that flood washed away over 200 rice farms valued N20 million in his community in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa.

Musa made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Sunday.

He said that the menace was as a result of a heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding caused by tributaries of the dam in the area in the last few days.

All the rice we planted in over 200 farms at the bank of the dam was destroyed because the dam was over filled with water.

We lost rice of over N20 million because we planted on north, south, east and west sides of the dam and the water has submerged it all, and the fishes in dam were feeding on the rice day in day out,” he said.

The village head recalled that it was predicted that low rainfall would be recorded in 2015, and as a result, farmers decided to plant the rice close to dam.

According to him, the motive behind planting close to the dam is that the farmers can use it to water the rice in case of short rainfall as predicted.

We decided to plant close to the dam based on the prediction that low rainfall will be recorded this year so that we can use the dam to water the rice to reap, but the reverse is the case,” Musa said.

Musa said that the victims were pleading with the government for assistance.