A woman identified as Margaret Udiamehi has been raped and beheaded by suspected herdsmen at Ekpoma, Esan West LGA. .
The
body of the victim was found on Tuesday night by a search party after
she failed to return home from the farm while the police discovered her
severed head on Wednesday morning at a different location.
Angered
by the brutal killing, women in the locality took to the streets of
Ekpoma to demand expulsion of all herdsmen from the village and environs
The protesters went to the palace of Onojie of Ekpoma and the
Divisional Police headquarters to vent their anger.
They
said a woman earlier escaped from the herdsman who pursued her but they
took her cutlass. Speaking on behalf of the protesters, one of the
women who gave her name as Grace said they were tired of watching
strangers destroyed their crops, rape and kill women in the village.
She
called for government protection to allow them go to the farm. Daughter
of the deceased said her mother left for farm in the morning and did
not return home which made a search party to the organised to look for
her. .
She
said they searched through the night before her naked body was
discovered at about 2am and her head chopped off. Divisional Police
Officer in Ekpoma, SP Franklin Akanonu, who confirmed the killing
assured the protesters that the killers would be apprehended.
He
urged the protesters to provide information that would help apprehend
those behind the killing. Sources revealed that policemen were deployed
to the Ujuelen camp of Fulani herdsmen to protect them from any possible
reprisal attacks. Photo Credit: Bloomshire
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