Leader Accuses Army Of Complicity
• Okowa Condemns Attack, Calls For Calm

UWHERU community in Ughelli North Local Council, Delta State, is boiling. Soldiers from the Bomadi Army Camp and police units from Ughelli Command have been deployed to the area after the invasion of the community by Fulani herdsmen.

According to leaders of the community, not less than 14 persons are feared dead after the attack. But the police said the number could not be verified as they were yet to see the corpses of those killed.

The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, when contacted said the Police Area Commander and the DPO of Ughelli division were at Uwheru community investigating the incident and that they were yet to see the bodies of those killed as alleged by the community

It was learnt that the crisis began on Thursday when herdsmen arrived the community with a large number of cows and destroyed farms. The youths mobilised and warded them off their farms, but the herdsmen regrouped, armed themselves and returned to the community and killed four persons at separate locations.

The Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, who is from the community, and the President General of Uwheru community, Cassidy Akpodefa, told The Guardian that four corpses of those killed had been retrieved while ten others persons are still missing and unaccounted for.

Muoboghare indicted the army and accused them of complicity in the Fulani herdsmen invasion of Uwheru, saying after the herdsmen had finished killing, the soldiers were deployed to the community to protect the herdsmen from reprisal attacks.He said in the last few years the Fulani herdsmen had killed not less than 50 people in the community, adding that the yearly killings were a plot by the Fulani herdsmen to take over their land.

According to him, in the past some Fulani herdsmen had been arrested and handed over to the police but they were promptly freed because the police national command structure is in the hands of Fulani officers.

Akpodefa appealed to the Delta State government to intervene and save the community from the yearly invasion by the Fulani herdsmen, saying that the community, which is known for its production of sweet potatoes, groundnut, pepper and fish can longer go to their farms due to the menace of herdsmen.

Meanwhile, Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Olisa Ifeajika, has condemned the attack. The governor however called for restraint saying, “I have directed the Commissioner of Police and the Brigade Commander, 63 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Asaba, to as a matter of urgency ensure that peace was restored to the communities.”
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Hmmm

congratulations to buhari and his people on this achievement

Buhari and his APC Janjaweedian government congratulations. You barred people from defending themselves against Fulani terrorist in their communities so that they will continue killing people unchallenged.

This Herdsmen have taken off from Boko Haram.

And they have not been declared terrorists yet...


God save us.

The community should just smoked
Fulani herdsmen.
And other neighbours within those areas should help out also.
We can't allow this useless blood suckers to terrorize innocent people

Fulani terrorists again? God Abeg punish this useless government for us.

Do you know why the statement "Nigeria will be better one day" is a FUTURE impossible tense?
Tribalism, religious fanaticism and bigotry reign supreme in this country.

Buhari on his part isn't helping matters. It is only in Nigeria that the Army, police and a whole lot of security agents are unleashed on unarmed protesters while the blood thirsty herdsmen are pampered.

It is only in Nigeria that a freedom fighting group is a terrorist organization while the government is unable to prescribe the blood thirsty herdsmen despite the fact that the herdsmen are the fourth deadliest terrorist group in the whole world.


It is only in Nigeria that you will hear of the word "repentant terrorists". If the criminal terrorists could be released then what then are the prisons meant for? Those in the prisons could as well be released because a whole lot of them have genuinely repented.

This is a sad day for people of Urhobo ethnic nationalities worldwide.

That’s brutal. The government should really take the safety and life of people serious in this country

Who will declare this people terrorists that they are.....

RIP to the dead

Watch as they start screaming yorubas o.