Four persons have been arrested for allegedly setting fire into former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s farm.
Obasanjo’s 140 hectres farm was severely burnt down by hoodlums at Howe community in Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue state at about 2pm on Saturday.
The perpetrators caused the fire ‘following probable disagreements with the locals over compensation for the piece of land that originally belonged to the state government’, local newspaper Vaguard reported.
Confirming the sad news, Gwer East Local Government Chairman, Mr Emmanuel Ortsega described as a deliberate sabotage against ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
According to him, ‘The fire on the 139 hectares farm was started at about 2 pm on Saturday by hoodlums and nearly half of it is gone. It was clearly a sabotage.
‘It was strange that there was fire outbreak in the farm because the farm was properly safeguarded, so it was obvious that it was sabotage.
Kehinde Akinyemi, former Obasanjo’s spokesman also see the incident as a bad development.
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