-March 25, 2021, News/Comments
DELTA-News reaching Afrikanwatch Network indicates that women and youth numbering close to 2000 blocked Abraka -Agbor highway over an alleged killing of 20 persons by suspected Fulani Herdsmen. This was according to Advocate news, which reported that Protesters had blocked Abraka road in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State today. The uprising also had Obiaruku indigenes who had had several attacks and killings by the herders. The protesters chanted songs, noting that the killings, raping and maiming of farmers is enough.
Protesters
However, it could be noted that last Sunday, a farmer, Engr. Mike Egba, who lived in Obiaruku while returning from his farm in the area was alleged to have being murdered by suspected Fulani herdsmen alongside his sons and close relative along Abraka/Benin Road by Oghonogbo farm settlement junction. Egba was a staff of Delta State University, working in the Physical Planning Unit of the Institution before his murder
The women and youth who protested today with an inscription written on their placard;”Okowa stop Fulani Herdsmen’, ‘Okowa stop the killings now’, ‘Stop killer herdsmen now, Okowa come to our aide,’ ‘Okowa we say no to Fulani killer herdsmen now’ and ‘Okowa your people are dying,’ mounted road blocks for over three hours at the popular Benin junction in Abraka on the ever busy Abraka-Agbor road. They also chanted “ ‘Buhari must go’, ‘Okowa must act now’, ‘We don’t want Fulani herdsmen again,’ ‘Fulani herdsmen must leave our bushes,’ etc.
Protesters
In the same vein, the chairman of the farmers in Abraka/Obiaruku communities, Idigun Duke, who spoke to Oasis Magazine has noted that, herders killing in the communities have gone out of hand and must be curbed, otherwise, retaliation may be very brutal. “The protest today is all about the killing of our farmers inside the bush and raping and killing our women. Someone will go to farm and won’t come back home. We have written a petition to the governor and protested to the Delta State House of Assembly. The lawmakers asked us to write a petition to the governor which we did. The governor asked us to forward the petition to Commissioner of Police which we also did. But, no one wants to help us”
“They said we should live together that Aboki are our friends. But now, friend dey kill friend. They will root our cassava and give to their cows to eat. Our farmers no more go to farms again. We want to see our governor. Let him come and address us. A farmer was killed on Sunday with his two children. They also carried a vigilante into the bush till now they are still looking for him. Another vigilante was shot on his stomach. He is at the hospital for medical attention. An hungry man is an angry man. The whole farmers are now hungry because we no more go the farm. Even if you go the cassava has been eaten by cows and we are not given compensation “We don’t know if we have a governor because if we do, he must come to address us here. We don’t want the DPO and we won’t leave here until we see the governor. “Our demand is that they should go and clear the bush immediately so farmers can start going to their farms and come back home,” he said.
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