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DELTA: Herdsmen kill 15-yr-old, shoot father
The nefariuos activities of assailants posing as herdsmen was recorded yet again at a farm settlement in Umueze near Oloa-Ossissa community, Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State when a 15-year-old boy was shot dead, while his father sustained gunshot wounds.
According to eyewitnesses, the suspected herdsmen attacked the deceased and his father unexpectedly at their farm along Abalam-Ossissa Road.
Read also: Again, herdsmen invade Falae’s farm, open fire on policemen
“They chased farmers with guns at Azu-Anuga farmland area of Umueze-Ossissa,” an eyewitness in the Ossissa area said.
According to Mr. Andrew Aniamaka, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer who confirmed the incident, the police are on the trail of the herdsmen.
He also called for calm among residents of Oloa-Ossissa community assuring them that the suspects would be brought to book.
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Animashaun Ayodeji
June 22, 2017 at 10:40 am
Those people are hired assassins not herdsmen. Herdsmen don’t go about with guns, they use just sticks. Please anyone who sees any herdsman with gun should raise instant alarm so that the proper security forces can step in to do their job.
Anita Kingsley
June 22, 2017 at 10:47 am
That was then, recently they go about with guns and enough billets because they cherish the lives of their cows more than anything, they are merciless, they have no pity for farmers working tirelessly to get their farms in good shape.
JOHNSON PETER
June 22, 2017 at 2:07 pm
Guy, Fulani Don upgrade, they use daint guns
Oise Oikelomen
June 22, 2017 at 4:17 pm
Didn’t you read the news about how herdsmen went to Taraba State House of Assembly in broad daylight, armed to the teeth? News was on Ripples, 13th June. The killers are herdsmen who have been hardened into impunity by the knowledge that their people are in control of the entire power apparatus of the country.
Abeni Adebisi
June 22, 2017 at 10:50 am
This is a teenager that was killed! Yet the federal government will keep pampering the herdsmen because they are northerners.
JOHNSON PETER
June 22, 2017 at 2:06 pm
I wonder what the federal government will do to compensate the family
seyi jelili
June 22, 2017 at 2:19 pm
What compensation? What can compensate loss of life?
Nonso Ezeugo
June 22, 2017 at 4:25 pm
Federal government are wicked like the herdsmen because since i was born till now our federal government have not compansate any family in victim
yanju omotodun
June 22, 2017 at 1:07 pm
Enact laws on grazing. No Fulani herdsmen should graze again in any part of the country except their region, period.
JOHNSON PETER
June 22, 2017 at 2:05 pm
Who will enact the law when their man is at the helm of affairs and they dominate the Senate as well
seyi jelili
June 22, 2017 at 2:18 pm
That’s a lie. Buhari won’t support such nonsense because it’s evil. The security personnel are the ones evading their responsibility.
Oise Oikelomen
June 22, 2017 at 4:09 pm
And what exactly has your Buhari done about this since it started? If the security personnel are “evading their responsibility” whose duty is it to put them in order? Isn’t Buhari the CSO of the nation anymore? Even to address the issue, he has not