Ondo communities protest incessant killings, kidnappings by herdsmen

Residents of Ose Local Council Area of Ondo have cried out to the state government to protect them from incessant attacks, killings, destructions and abductions by suspected herdsmen.

The aggrieved residents in a “save our soul” protest to the state secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Akure, on Thursday, decried how the suspected herdsmen have been terrorising their communities.


They identified the communities as; Ijagba, Imoru Arimogija, Ute, Molege, and Okelusi, among others.

Sunday Ogoh, a spokesperson for the protesting communities, revealed that the unwholesome activities of the armed men have become worrisome.

Mr Ogoh described the attackers as terrorists, saying the residents of the communities, who are mostly farmers could no longer sleep.

“As we speak, we can’t even visit our farms because of these attacks. These gunmen who are herdsmen have taken over everywhere. They always hide by the farm road and swap on our people and abduct them for ransom,” he told reporters.


According to him, their protest was triggered by a fresh attack on one of the residents of the community.

He said the victim, Ohiremen Isaac Odeh, a local farmer in Ijagba, was waylaid and kidnapped by the gunmen and later killed after ransom of four hundred thousand naira.

While stressing that the sad incidents have destabilised the community, Mr Ogoh noted that many residents now live in palpable fear due to threats from the attackers.

“In the last two years, we have lost over 20 community members to the incessant attacks. Aside from Mr Odeh, we lost one of our brothers, Bola Adelegbe to the attacks by the gunmen.

“As a result of this, we are appealing to the state government to give urgently come to our aid. They should give us a strong military base that would be manning our roads to reduce this incessant kidnapping and killings in our communities,” he added.


He further noted that there was a need to allow the state government and the whole world to know what was going on in the affected communities.

Mr Ogoh, however, revealed that the incessant attacks and kidnappings by the gunmen have forced the farmers to abandon their farmlands.

“We have written the state government on several occasions but we are not getting the response we want. So, we want security provide for us because we are tired.

“And one of their hideouts is the tick forest in Okeluse, which they use as their den.”

He added, “Anytime they are kidnapped, they will always ask for ransom and if you don’t give them the money within two days, they will kill the victim. We have been experiencing this for the last two years now.”

Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, the spokesperson for the police in Ondo, confirmed the attacks on the residents of the communities.


Mrs Odunlami-Omisanya said that the police had been after the perpetrators, vowing that “they would be brought to book soon.”

https://gazettengr.com/ondo-communities-protest-incessant-killings-kidnappings-by-herdsmen/

Herdsmen in the SW?

Why won't they settle there when every youth has travelled to Lagos to claim indegenes.

Fighting shop owners in Lagos and losing their home states.

Tinubu has faith to protect his own town??

Aaah make we hear word
We are in yoruba government

ok

Igbos are our problems please, fulanis are a peaceful group, stop giving them bad name.

When tinubu come back from medical trip he will look for the cow. For now you people should keep looking for the cows

Yorubas and Herdsmen are brothers- Tinubu, 2021

Where are the cows?

E concern you?

ORGANISE TO KILL THEM IN RETURN FAST. BUHARI WHO BROUGHT THEM FROM NIGER REPUBLIC HAS GONE THERE TO IMPORT MORE OF THE INVADERS. IT'S ILLEGAL BIZ NOW. USE AMOTEKUN TO KILL THEM AND BURY THEM WHERE YOU KILL THEM.

FROM ORUNTO27 ORISAORUNTOSPEAKS
THEY ARE TRYING TINUBU ON ONDO LAND. EVEN IF YOU SEE BUHARI AND ELRUFAI WITH THEM, KILL THEM TOO WELL WELL.

successmatters:
Herdsmen in the SW?

Why won't they settle there when every youth has travelled to Lagos to claim indegenes.

Fighting shop owners in Lagos and losing their home states.

Those spinless coward Tinubu supporters cares not. They are busy spreading propaganda of how a 3 weeks president is performing wonders. They think everyone can be fuuled by their nasty propaganda. A president will need at least 2 years in Nigeria for proper evaluation. Is there state police approved to checkmate this?

These and more when achieved and we have security, then we can start rating a president. These people are miseducated mo.rons aswear down.

FULANI HERDSMEN ARE TERRORISTS AND BUHARI IS BEHIND THEM BY CHRISTANA AMANPOUR CNN.
ELRUFAI CONFESSED TO IMPORTING THE TERRORISTS.

Where are the cows?

Fake news...sw is safe.

The Ronu people and cowardness are like 5&6....... They busy dragging shops with Ndigbo in Lagos, while the Fulani are busy annihilating them ..😂

Nobody to defend them again. Their sons are in Lagos claiming indigenes.

Those demolishing Igbo people's shops and those happy about it , do you know their is an unending curses on any group of persons who destroys someone's right ways of making money ?

November1857:
Ondo communities protest incessant killings, kidnappings by herdsmen



https://gazettengr.com/ondo-communities-protest-incessant-killings-kidnappings-by-herdsmen/

You people should stop this stereotyping of the Fulani ethnic nationality.
How are you people even sure the attachers were fulanis
Was the inscriptions Fulani written on their foreheads
If you say they were fulanis, where are the cows

People that ESN flushed out easily are terrorizing the cowards in SW

SisterFire:
Those demolishing Igbo people's shops and those happy about it , do you know their is an unending curses on any group of persons who destroys someone's right ways of making money ?

The demolition is good, the East is swelling economically due to these ethnic vendetta. Let them continue, it is good for SE

Ogene001:
People that ESN flushed out easily are terrorizing the cowards in SW

😂😂😂

Ogene001:

The demolition is good, the East is swelling economically due to these ethnic vendetta. Let them continue, it is good for SE

... But the pain is too much for the igbos now, look at what is happening to south kaduna and Jos which looks like unending and it has something to do with the fact that they fought igbos blindly during the biafran war without asking questions. I understood that Fulani deceived them but didn't participate.

Minime10:


You people should stop this stereotyping of the Fulani ethnic nationality.
How are you people even sure the attachers were fulanis
Was the inscriptions Fulani written on their foreheads
If you say they were fulanis, where are the cows

... Like father like daughter ... Some will think this one(Yoruba moslem )is been sarcastic but she meant every word,

Abeg I'm out

Children filled with hate don't care about their mothers in village,they are only looking for how to show their hatred for Igbos.






Evil children.

successmatters:
Herdsmen in the SW?

Why won't they settle there when every youth has travelled to Lagos to claim indegenes.

Fighting shop owners in Lagos and losing their home states.

Yolobas Killing themselves and blaming herdsmen.

orisa37:
ORGANISE TO KILL THEM IN RETURN FAST. BUHARI WHO BROUGHT THEM FROM NIGER REPUBLIC HAS GONE THERE TO IMPORT MORE OF THE INVADERS. IT'S ILLEGAL BIZ NOW. USE AMOTEKUN TO KILL THEM AND BURY THEM WHERE YOU KILL THEM.

FROM ORUNTO27 ORISAORUNTOSPEAKS
THEY ARE TRYING TINUBU ON ONDO LAND. EVEN IF YOU SEE BUHARI AND ELRUFAI WITH THEM, KILL THEM TOO WELL WELL.

Where's their cow?

Ogene001:
People that ESN flushed out easily are terrorizing the cowards in SW

God bless ESN.


God bless Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Yorubas and fulanis are one.It must be IPOB terrorists that are sponsoring this protests to cause enmity between the yorubas in Ondo and their fulani hosts

It won't make frontpage .com

If they complain to Tinubu, he will ask them 'where are the cows?'.