Aggrieved community of the Uduophori family in Patani Native Govt Department of Delta Circumstance on Tuesday barricaded the East-West street in protest towards the amputation of a 28-year-old resident by means of suspected killer herdsmen mentioned to have besieged the locality.
For a number of hours, the protesters halted vehicular motion from Bomadi and alternative neighbouring coastal communities as they laid siege at the best get admission to street.
South-South PUNCH collected that the sufferer, Mr Independence Akpodiete, a industrial bike rider and father of 2, was once attacked with a machete by means of the suspected herders date he was once conveying a passenger to the Uduophori family.
Angered by means of the improvement, the protesters, showing leaves and placards known as at the government to wade in, as an issue of urgency, as they lamented the depression they’re going thru within the palms of the invading herdsmen.
They averred that many citizens had been blocked from getting to their farms because of the ordinary assaults from the herders.
Inscriptions on their placards integrated ‘President Tinubu, rescue us from Fulani herdsmen killings;’ ‘Come and rescue us from herdsmen bondage;’ ‘Fulani leave us alone, stop raping our wives, women and daughters;’ ‘Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, come and rescue us from herdsmen bondage,’ amongst others.
The President-Common of Uduophori family, Mr ThankGod Ado date addressing newshounds in the name of the protesters expressed grave worry over what he known as the ordinary assaults on citizens by means of killer herdsmen.
He mentioned, “We’re protesting because of this every year and ordinary presence of herdsmen in our family and woodlands.
“What precipitated this actual protest was once the hot assault on one among our brothers who had one among his palms amputated by means of suspected Fulani herdsmen, upcoming he was once dragged into the jungle.
“We aren’t satisfied and we say ‘enough is enough.’ As peace-loving and law-abiding community, we don’t need a condition the place the federal government would take a seat ill to permit those invading herdsmen to blast us.
“Our other halves can not journey to their farms on account of the incessant assaults, rape and ransom cost.
“Additionally, our planted cassava are uprooted and given to their cows. Now and then, they’d come to the family to burgle retail outlets of petty investors and cart away foodstuffs.
“Every time they accost our community on their farms, they’d ship their husbands house to journey and convey cash, and ahead of they go back, the ladies would have raped the ladies.
“We say ‘no’ to continued harassment from these herdsmen and we are calling on the federal, state and local governments to come to our rescue from these terrible people.”
The chairman of the Bike/Keke riders within the family, Mr. Henry Emaduku mentioned, “In 2023, the herdsmen attacked one our brothers, Oghenegarhe Asadera, and his hand was once amputated.
“And in 2024, they attacked the top schoolmaster of the people college within the family. On this 12 months 2025, additionally they attacked Mr Akpodiete and amputated his hand upcoming accumulating his Android telephone and an unspecified amount of cash.
“As I am speaking with you now, our primary school in the community has been taken over by herdsmen and the school is currently shut before this recent attack on our brother and me being the chairman of the motorcycle/keke riders, I am calling on the government to save us from herdsmen’s continued attack.”
Additionally talking, 75-year-old Pa Benjamin Obotorino held that “for over 15 years, citizens had been beneath the bondage of Fulani herdsmen.
“They would come to Uduophori with their cows to destroy our crops. Their cows no longer eat grass as they feed on our cassava, yams and other cash crops. We are tired of their continued killing, raping and maiming of our people.”
The family girls chief, Mrs London Edith, talking amidst sobs, lamented that the citizens at the moment are made strangers of their land and known as for pressing help from the federal government and all alternative related government.