Some Fulani herdsmen are alleged to have raped and murdered a middle aged mother of three in Ogun State.
A middle-aged mother of three who has been identified as Ayesi Balogun, has been reportedly raped to death by some Fulani herdsmen at Asa community of Yewa North local government area of Ogun State.
According to New Telegraph Newspaper,
the ugly incident which has thrown the community into confusion,
occurred on Saturday when Balogun was on her way to her farmland.
This
sordid act was made known by an indigenous pressure group, Ketu
Advancement Front (KAF), which raised the alarm over the resurgence of
killings by suspected herdsmen in the area.
In a
statement signed by the group's Coordinator-General and Secretary, Kunle
Abiose and Joseph Bankole, Balogun’s death brought to 25 the number of
innocent people who had been sent to their early graves by marauders in
the local government.
"We are sad to announce
that Mrs Ayesi Balogun, a poor mother of three, was raped and hacked to
death on her farm in Asa, Yewa North local government area of Ogun
State over the weekend by Fulani herdsmen.
On
sighting her entering the farm, the killer-herdsmen, who had taken over
her farm, pounced on her, probably gang-raped her before hacking her to
death.
Mrs Balogun’s case brought to
over 25, the number of our innocent and poor people who had been sent to
their early graves in seriously agonising and dehumanising
circumstances not to talk of several others who had been maimed."
The
state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Muyiwa Adejobi,
confirmed the incident. Adejobi however added that the killing might
have been a reprisal because an unidentified corpse of a Fulani person
was discovered in the area a day earlier.
He said
that the police had already summoned the leadership of the two warring
communities in the area to a peace meeting today in Abeokuta.
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