Many persons, including operatives of the Ondo State Security Network a.k.a. Amotekun, have been injured by herdsmen in Akure North Local Government Area.

The attack took place while Amotekun personnel were trying to enforce the anti-open grazing law at Igoba, a community on Ado Road.

The armed Fulani herdsmen were said to be grazing their cows on some farms when they attacked the officers with guns, bottles, cutlasses and stones.

Spokesman for the Ondo Amotekun Corps, Jimoh Adeniken, said in a statement that the corps surveillance team was led to the farms by their owners where they met more than 120 cows ravaging the farms but no herder was seen with them.

Adeniken said the Amotekun operatives moved the cows out of the farms but were attacked by the herdsmen.

He said: “The assailants continued to throw stones and bottles till they invaded the main road and hacked one of the Amotekun officers into coma even as they attempted to disarm officers and men of the Amotekun corps.

“Other officers sustained varying degrees of injuries during the attack and they are currently receiving medical attention.

“The owner of the cows has been identified while investigation by the corps continues.

“Government will continue to ensure strict compliance with the law with a view to ensuring that efforts of farmers would not be truncated through destruction of their farmlands by herders and their cows.

“Officers of the corps will continue to carry out its legal functions of protecting the people of the state as well as their property.”