4 Herdsmen killed in Kogi

Suspected youths from Oforachi community in Idah LGA of Kogi State, have supposedly executed four herders and dumped their bodies in the Ofu streams.

It was in response to the executing of 65-year-old Godwin Egbunu in his farm.

An observer, Audu, who asserted that the episode happened last Friday, said that the rancher was assaulted by some herders who attacked his homestead land and devastated every one of the harvests.

As indicated by him, the farmer went to station where two police officers were approached to go with him to the farmland.

Be that as it may, on arriving, the suspected herders assaulted the last mentioned, directly in nearness of the police officers and slaughtered him.

Rankled by the executing of the rancher, the young people murdered four herders in reprisal while the cops said they couldn't stop the slaughtering of the rancher since they were unarmed.

An occupant said that individuals from the community can never again close their eyes however are keeping cautiousness to prevent any retaliatory assaults.

Communities near Oforachi, including Ogbogbo, Odolu, Akpanya, are said to be living in dread inspired by a paranoid fear of conceivable retaliation assault by the herders.

The Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Williams Aya, in an announcement affirmed the episode.

As indicated by him: "On the eighteenth of this current month (January 2020), at about 0700hrs, information was gotten from Oforachi, that obscure people suspected to be herders killed one Godwin Egbunu, matured 65, of same tended to, at his ranch and subsequently furious young people from the town started assaulting any Fulani immediately."

He said SUPOL positioned at Ajaka quickly prepared his personnel to the scene and saved two herders from the horde yet was genuinely harmed.

Aya, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, said that the harmed herders were raced to Isah Hospital for treatment.

"Zone Command Idah similarly prepared personnel from divisions under his order, while PMF SARS agents fortified the group on the ground.

"Commonality have been reestablished. They took the photos of the corpses  and they were taken to general hospital montuary for examination," he expressed

He additionally said one Mohammed Arade, a Fulani, of Egabada town detailed at the Ajaka police headquarters that two of their men in particular Abubakar Nahare, 65, and Hassan Natunku, 60, have not been seen since when the episode occurred.

He said that a hunt party drove by the Acting Area Commander, Idah, promptly took care of business, as the corpses of the two missing herders were recouped from inside the Ofu River at Oforachi, with their options limited into nine inches square.

He said that the photos of the expired was taken and their corpses taken to general medical clinic morgue for post-mortem examination, as examination proceeds.