₦airaland Forum

Ado-Ekiti -
Residents of Oke
Ako community in
Ikole Local
government area of
Ekiti state have
blamed police in the
area for failing to
act swiftly on
Friday night when
the community
was thrown into
mourning, wailing
and gnashing of
teeth, by
suspected killer
herdsmen who
invaded the town,
leaving two dead
and several others
wounded.
One of the
residents, Muyiwa
Olukosi whose wife
sustained
matchete wound,
told newsmen that
the case was
reported to police in
the area stressing
that there was no
response from
them.
According to him,
the police
demanded for a
sum N12,00 before
they could move to
the scene as he
said police
complained of no
fuel in their hilux
van.
Olukosi who
maintained that
things would have
gone worst more
than what one
could imagine if not
for the prompt
response of a team
of the Nigerian
Army from Akure,
even before the
arrival of police in
the area also noted
that the attack
would have been
prevented had the
police acted swiftly
during the attack.
He called on the
Governments at all
levels to beef up
security in the area
in order to avert
the re-occurrence
of such
development.
On the attack
another
eyewitness told
journalists that the
incident in which
the entire village
was sacked
occurred at about
8:00 pm on Friday.
A woman, who
identified herself as
Mrs Grace Olofin,
had during in a
telephone chat
alleged that the
killer herdsmen
invaded the
community in large
numbers, caught
the people of the
community
unawares, adding
that the invaders
were armed with
dangerous
weapons like
automatic guns,
bows, arrows,
swords,
matchetes, hacking
and mauling their
victims with
reckless abandon.
Olofin further
alleged majority of
the villagers had to
scamper for safety
in the bushes to
escape the
onslaught of the
killer herdsmen,
who according to
her were hacking
the hapless
villagers with their
deadly weapons.
She said the
invaders had shot
sporadically into the
air and killed one
Lekan Arosanyin
and a yet to be
identified person,
while four others
sustained various
degrees of injuries
and were said to be
receiving treatment
at a private hospital
in Ado Ekiti, the
state capital.
Another witness ,
who narrowly
escaped being killed,
Adebayo Ajayi,
described the
incident as a
reprisal attack as
he said that the
herdsmen had
previously fallen out
with the villagers
over their grazing
activities in the
community.
He further
explained that the
villagers had been
resisting the use of
their farmlands as
grazing fields by
the herdsmen.
The Divisional Police
Officer in the area
who also spoke on
telephone interview
confirmed the
incident noting that
he could not
ascertain whether
the incident was
armed robbery or
Fulani herdsmen
attack .

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