Farmers
and residents from the over 200 villages and camps in Ondo state have
trooped to the streets to condemn the brutal murder of the a 64-year-old
farmer, Linus Ogbee, a father of seven in Ilion Camp, Igbatoro in Akure
North Local Government Area of Ondo State by Fulani herdsmen.
According
to Vanguard, Ogbee had gone to the farm on the ill-fated day and when
he did not return home as promised, his family members went in search of
him only to discover his lifeless body in the bush. The deceased was
said to have gone to the farm on the ill-fated day and when he did not
return home as promised, his family members went in search of him only
to discover his lifeless body in the bush, riddled with gunshots.
Vanguard
gathered that the camp was a few distance to the farm of the former
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, which
the herdsmen also invaded last week.
During
the invasion of Chief Falae’s farm, the herdsmen reportedly engaged in a
gun battle with policemen deployed to the farm to dislodge them and in
the process many cows were killed. Reports had it that the herdsmen
stormed the villages in search of their cows and in the process shot the
farmer they met in the farm.
Speaking
to newsmen, the traditional ruler of Igbatoro, Oba Adanri Akinsehinde,
who confirmed the death of the farmer, said fear had gripped the people
of the community as the herdsmen are still around and preventing them
from accessing their farmlands.
He
appealed to the security operatives to help flush out the herdsmen, who
have prevented the people from going to farms, which have equally been
destroyed.
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