Nigeria: Herdsmen Reign of Terror in Delta Community

22 February 2020

For residents of Uwheru kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, the fear of Fulani herdsmen is the beginning of wisdom. They have now resorted to going to their farms in the middle of the night between 1am and 3am when the herdsmen are already sleeping after taking their herds for grazing. The women also can no longer go to the farms as they are certain of being raped by herdsmen while the whole community live in perpetual fear. Their cries for help from both the state and the Federal Government have however fallen on deaf ears.

Some of the residents who recounted how they have been living in fear for the past twelve years said the herdsmen came to the community to kill, to rape and to destroy.

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