Their bodies were found in a bush in Uwheru community, in the Ughelli North Council Area of Delta State.
The incident, which was said to have occurred over the weekend, has resulted in palpable tension in the area, as other members of the fishing expedition reportedly sustained different degrees of gun wounds from the attack.
The Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, had, last week, while receiving the Assistant Inspector General Police Zone 5, Mr. Rasheed Akintunde, disclosed that herdsmen occupied three Uwheru communities and that farmers might have to pay Fulani herdsmen before being allowed access to their farmlands.
The governor had told the AIG to urgently mobilise police operatives to the area to prevent a breakdown of law and order.
A security personnel who confirmed the incident noted that the attack, which took place at a bush in Oreba village of Uwheru community on Saturday, had since sparked tension in the area.
Our sources added that scores of persons who survived the attack with gunshots injuries were currently receiving treatment at undisclosed hospitals within the state.
A senior Police officer at the Ughelli Police Area Command, who also confirmed the incident, disclosed that the corpses of the deceased were recovered from the scene of the incident on Sunday.
The President General, Uwheru community, Ogarivi Utso, also confirmed the killings, adding that their communities were under siege by arms wielding herdsmen who have prevented their people from visiting their farmlands.
Utso added that Saturday’s attack brings to six persons that have been killed by herdsmen in the last few weeks in the area.
He called on the state and the Federal governments to immediately come to their aid before the situation snowballs into a crisis.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Aniamaka, could not be reached for confirmation, as calls to his telephone line rang out repeatedly.
He has not also replied to a text message sent to him as at the time of filing this report.
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Where are the Niger Delta Avengers or the Reformed NDA, that some Fulani miscreants are killing your people in Niger Delta. Is it because this is not oil matter or there's no money to be shared?
ReplyDeleteShame on you NDA/RNDA!!!
Shame on the so called Niger Delta Militants.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that there are heldmens with guns in a community is quite appalling.The police should be there arresting all of them.The Naija militants should go there and start taking them out.If yoiu allow this to festet,it wi ll be the law of the land moving forward.Nibble it now and let them know no one has a monopoly on violence .Let them keep that crap in the north
ReplyDeleteEnter your comment...The police can't arrest any herdsman because they are sacred cows that cannot be touched by the FG. If it were others, they would have been pronounced Terrorists long ago.
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