Suspected herdsmen behead health worker, flee with head in Benue

Suspected herdsmen ambushed and killed a wellness serviceman identified arsenic Ojoma Emie successful Ikobi, Apa Local Government Area of Benue State, connected Monday morning.

DAILY POST gathered that Emie, a begetter of 3 who resided successful Oloke, Ikobi, was returning from Ugbokpo town, wherever helium had gone to acquisition medicine, erstwhile the attackers allegedly ambushed him astatine Ugbobi Junction, a notorious spot on the Ikobi-Olegogba axis of the Ikobi-Ugbokpo roadworthy wherever residents accidental equipped herders often laic ambush for travellers.

Sources said the assailants macheted him to death, severed his caput and fled with it, leaving his headless assemblage successful a excavation of blood.

The corpse was aboriginal discovered by residents of the community.

Confirming the incident, the Vice President of the Ikobi Progressive Forum, Dr. Edoh Ofugocho, told DAILY POST that residents became alarmed aft proceeding aggregate gunshots from the area.

“Our radical heard gunshots astir 10 to 15 times. People instantly became apprehensive due to the fact that they knew helium was connected his mode to Ugbokpo to bargain medicine. Later, it was discovered that helium had been attacked and killed astatine Ugbobi Junction,” Ofugocho said.

He added that Emie was a wellness idiosyncratic successful the assemblage and was joined with children earlier his tragic death.

Ofugocho lamented that Ikobi had been subject...