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After exhausting peaceful options, residents of Ike-Onicha successful Onicha-Ukwuani, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, person invoked accepted deities against suspected herdsmen.
The herdsmen were accused of invading their farmlands and threatening the community’s livelihood.
Community Secretary, Ogbuiji Augustine Chukwuma, said repeated efforts to transportation the herders to permission failed, prompting the elders to invoke the gods of the land.
The assemblage alleged that equipped herders established a campy betwixt Ike-Onicha and Ogbagu astir 4 weeks ago, forcing farmers, particularly women, to wantonness their farms for fearfulness of kidnapping, rape, and attacks.
He lamented that crops had been destroyed respective times, leaving residents bare and incapable to prolong themselves.
Confirming the development, Delta North Livestock Management Committee Coordinator, Matthew Ujene, said his squad investigated the complaint, discovered an amerciable campy successful the forest, and dismantled it aft the herder allegedly refused to vacate the area.
Ujene disclosed that the substance has been escalated to the section authorities chairman, who has scheduled a information gathering for adjacent week, portion reiterating the request for strict enforcement of Delta State’s prohibition connected unfastened grazing to forestall a recurrence.
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