Community Blames Cultists Over Poor Farm Yield

It seems the last is yet
to be heard as natives and visitors from Emughan Community were yet to return to their homes months after several persons were killed by yet to be identified gunmen in Aminigboko, in the Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The fleeing natives who spoke to our correspondent said that apart from the fact that their farms have been plundered in their absence, their early return back home was indefinite.
The community committee chairman, CDC, Aminigboko, Mr. Chukwudi George who spoke to our correspondent on telephone said since the main occupation of the natives was farming, the future of the natives was better imagined than seen.
According to the CDC boss, the complacency from the ruling political class, elders and high level chiefs in the LGA was worrisome.
“That there has not been any vocal high profile person speak on the issue to alert the authorities is very unfortunate.
“Infact we are beginning to have a no confidence vote on our leaders for their continued complacency on the matter”, he said.
Most of the fleeing natives who have repeatedly refused to have their names in print have also spoken in the same vein.
One of  them, though in his mid-forties, reputed to own one of the largest cassava farms in Aminigboko has continually lamented his ordeal.
According to him, the last time he ventured home, he was shocked to see more than three quarters of his cassava farm gone.
Continuing, he said as for his plantain and banana farms, the criminals who were allegedly occupying the community (despite the presence of men of the Nigeria police) have harvested all even as he said he would not be going home in the near future.
The Tide gathered that most of the fleeing natives were presently in Ahoada main town and its environs. It further gathered that while some have fled to as far as Bayelsa State and  in Port Harcourt, few have found refuge in Abua Central, with recent reported unrest not helping matters.
One of the foremost fisherman from the community who also asked not to be named, painted a bleak future for the Aminigboko community.
In his words “Even if the people return home today it will take donkey years for them to stand on their feet.
“the farming spirit of Aminigboko people is dead and I fear that many of them will choose to live the rest of their lives elsewhere”, he lamented.
The big question on everybody’s lips however is, with the presence of the Nigeria police in Aminigboko for the past three months, who are those responsible for plundering their crops and domestic animals?