The freshly completed and commissioned Anambra State international cargo and passenger airport was reportedly attacked by a group of Fulani herders and their herd of cattle, sparking terror and panic in the area.
Cattle rearers are believed to have entered the airport via the Umueri route, devastating fields near the airport.
Farmworkers near the airport have expressed great worry and anxiety as a result of the development.
Ezinne Nwede, a farmworker with Offor farms, which shares a border with the airport, claimed they were terrified when the cattle rearers hopped the farm's wire fence into the area to scare the workers. frighten them
Mr Udochukwu Uzor, a young Anambra horticulturist hired to plant palm trees at a farm near the airport, said he was afraid of seeing the 'dreaded cattle rearers' and refused to do the job.
He said the cattle rearers broke into the agricultural workers' residence in the nearby Offor farms about two months ago to take food from one of the rooms used by one Blessing, another farmworker.
When contacted, Mr Ikenna Offor, the farm's owner and the director of FS Initiative, a UK-based international development organization that encourages farming in Africa and Asia, showed significant worry about the situation.
He challenged the state administration to rise to the challenge, noting that the contentious subject of open cattle grazing had lately been resolved by South East governors.
'It is conditions like these that give rise to some of the abnormalities that we see in the country,' he said. 'So we need to head off this looming catastrophe before it rears its ugly head in the wrong direction,' Offor cautioned.
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