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Following the incessant killings of farmers and other residents in Uwheru kingdom, in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta state, the community has decided to place a ban the sale and consumption of cow meat in the kingdom.
Uwheru is kingdom among the traditional kingdoms in Urhobo land.
It was gathered that the ban was imposed at a meeting of the kingdom attended by prominent sons and daughters of Uwheru Kingdom, including Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, the Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education.
The decision which takes immediate effect followed last week’s repeated attacks on the communities by Fulani killer herdsmen in which no fewer than 10 persons died.
Sources close to the meeting revealed that no fewer than 86 farmers in Uwheru communities have been killed in herdsmen related attacks in the last 12 years.
A source said, “By this ban, nobody can bring cow meat to any of the communities that made up Uwheru Kingdom for any function, be it burial or any other celebration. You can’t kill our people and expect us to be eating cow meat when our people can’t go to farm. The ban takes effect immediately.”
