Delta women protest incessant rape by Fulani herdsmen

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Over a thousand Delta women from Orhorho community, Ughelli South Local Government Area, yesterday, protested incessant rape and attack by herdsmen. They barricaded the East-West Road, preventing vehicles from the Warri and Port Harcourt ends from passing through.

According to report by Vanguard, the mothers and daughters of the community, sat on benches and woods on the expressway, blocked the highway at about 7.30a.m., following a brutal attack, yesterday morning, on a woman that went to the farm.

The victim, who fought off attempt by the herdsmen to rape her, was cut several times with machete by her assailants, who left her for dead. When other women in the community got to know about the incident, they staged a protest and blocked the expressway in their community.

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The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, in his reaction to the incident, said the police were aware of the peaceful protest by the women, and were monitoring the action with a view to calming down nerves and clearing the road.

While some of the women sat on the road, others demonstrated around the area with placards, some of which bore the inscriptions

 

“We don’t want herdsmen on our land,”

“Where is Okowa, come and rescue us,”

“Security agencies, do your work,”

“No farm, no road for anybody to pass.”

 

Thousands of motorists and their vehicles were trapped in the ensuing traffic snarl, while the women rejected entreaties by the police and Army to vacate the road.

 

‘We want Okowa’ They vowed to remain on the road until Governor Ifeanyi Okowa addresses them on the way out of the incessant attacks.

 

One of the women leaders told Vanguard: “We don’t want herdsmen on our land. They are raping our women. The ones that refuse to be raped, they will butcher them with cutlass. They are lords even in our bush with their cattle.

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“They have raped up to 10 women and some victims are dead. “The woman that was attacked this morning is lying on the ground in front of a chemist shop.”

 

Another villager added: “A native, Rufus, who went to the farm, was killed December 25 last year; these people are armed with AK-47 rifles and other sophisticated weapons.”

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