ONDO: Fulani herdsman hacks NURTW official to death

The deadly menace of Fulani herdsmen was registered again in the South Western part of the country when an official of the National Union of Road Transport Worker (NURTW) was stabbed to death by an unidentified Fulani man after an arguement.

Reports say the middle-aged victim identified as Mr. Victor Ajisafe who hailed from Ondo West Local Government Area of the state was killed by the armed herdsman at the Road Block area of Akure.

According to the wife of the deceased identified as oluwatosin, nobody could ascertain why her husband was murdered by the Fulani man who is now on the run.

She said: “It was my husband’s brother that let me know that one Fulani stabbed my husband on the neck and was rushed to the hospital. When I got there, my in-laws and friends did not allow me to see him despite all my efforts.

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“They later took me back home in their car under the guise that we should be looking for money to take proper care of him. It was when they took me to my mother’s shop at Road Block that they broke the news that he is dead.”

The killing of the NURTW official follows a wave of attacks by herdsmen in the country including the killing of three victims and the burning of 12 houses at Huke village, Miango District in the Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.

It also follows the arrest of a group of Fulani herdsmen who were all travelling in a Volkswagen vehicle marked Kaduna MKA 555YJ on the Igarra- Okpe Road by vigilantes and youths in Okpe near Igarra, headquarters of Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State.

Reports say upon the arrest of the herdsmen, different types of dangerous weapons were found in their possession heightening fear in the area especially after the shooting of a school bus driver on the Igarra-Auchi Road by suspected killer cattle rearers.

 

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