{"id":1376,"date":"2023-11-10T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/bandits-tax-farmers-before-harvest-in-kaduna-community\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:06:06","slug":"bandits-tax-farmers-before-harvest-in-kaduna-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/bandits-tax-farmers-before-harvest-in-kaduna-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits tax farmers before harvest in Kaduna community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bandits terrorising Kaduna communities are forcing villagers to pay levies before they are allowed to harvest crops from their farms in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The affected farmers from Kidandan and Galadima villages were being forced, while those from Angular Fala\u2019u and Kerawa villages were constantly harassed and kidnapped while working on their farms.<\/p>\n<p>A source from Kidandan village explained that their people, mostly farmers, pay from N70,000 to N100,000 before they can harvest their farm produce.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that those who refuse to pay are either kidnapped, killed or have their farm produce seized by the bandits.<\/p>\n<p>He listed the names of the bandit warlords terrorising residents in the area to include Buhari; his deputy, Gana\u2019i, while the third in command is called Kwalameri.<\/p>\n<p>He warned, \u201cThere could be a shortage of food crops in the state if care is not taken, because many farmers have abandoned their farms due to banditry in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, could not be reached by phone to comment on the development.<\/p>\n<p>Bandits tax farmers before harvest in Kaduna community<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandits terrorising Kaduna communities are forcing villagers to pay levies before they are allowed to harvest crops from their farms&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1319,15,2740],"tags":[867,1107,1619,2742,2741,339,180,2583],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kaduna","category-news","category-tax","tag-bandits","tag-before","tag-community","tag-farmers","tag-harvest","tag-kaduna","tag-news","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}