Women barricade road protesting alleged attack, rape by herdsmen

Women from Ewu-Urhobo community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State on Monday barricaded the Ewu-Ughelli road as they protested alleged attacks and rape by herdsmen.

The protest by the women who were in their hundreds, got commuters plying the road stranded for over six hours as the women barricaded the road with woods.

Efforts by government officials and military personnel from the 222 Battalion, Agbarha-Otor of the Nigerian Army to placate the women and make them vacate the road fell on deaf ears as the women insisted they would not leave until the state government intervened in the matter.

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According to them, the herdsmen had chased them away from their farms and taken over their lands.

The leader of the women, Mrs. Queen Dieseruvwe, said: “Herdsmen are in the habit of waylaying our women on the road to their farms and raping them while those who try resisting their sexual advances are maimed with dangerous weapons.”

 

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