House wives protest alleged continuous rape by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Delta

Hundreds of House wives including unmarried ones in Ewu Urhobo Community, Ughelli South local government area of Delta State on Wednesday protested alleged continuous raping by suspected Fulani herdsmen who had been on rampage in the last few months in the community.

The protesters barricaded the major roads within the Community and Chanted war songs including the display of placards with the inscriptions “we no agree, Fulani herdsmen must go, we are tied of Fulani herdsmen raping us in our farm lands.

They have taken over our farm lands. They have also allegedly raped over 15 house wives and three to death”.

The leader of the protesting house wives, Mrs Queen Dieseruwe who spoke to journalists in the community said “we are protesting against the Fulani Herdsmen who are raping our women in their own farm lands, they block roads to waylay women going to markets and those either going or coming from Farm,

they sleep with them at gun point and any of their victims who tried to resist them, these wicked Fulani Herdsmen will cut off their necks with machetes; they will go to our farms and uproot our Cassava and destroy them, Until they leave our lands, no peace for us”.

According to Mrs Dieseruwe, one of the women popularly known as madam Bread from Edjekota Ogor allegedly raped by the Suspected Fulani Herdsmen died last Monday after the incident on Sunday evening from trauma and two others injured and are being treated at the Central hospital in Ewu uhrobo Community.

But the state Police Commissioner, Mustafa Muhammad who spoke to Journalists in Asaba on the protest by the housewives, said:” the police have arrested a number of Suspects linked as Fulani Herdsmen and investigation is on Ongoing with a view to arresting the situation, the police will do everything possible to bring to book Suspects behind the frequent rape of housewives in the Community,

The police are not unmindful of the alleged rape of housewives and we will do our best to bring to book those involved in the act”.

While appealing to the protesting house wives to maintain Law and order in the Community, The police boss disclosed that the police will do everything possible to get rid of the Suspects allegedly raping the house wives in Ewu Urhobo Community adding that the police recently Constituted Special Squad Unit to Curb the Menace in the Community,

As at the time of this report, the protesting housewives were reported to have blocked major roads where the Fulani Herdsmen frequent with their Cows, insisting that they (Fulani Herdsmen) leave their Community for peace to reign.