Posted on: 09:15 Wed, 02 Dec 2015



A 30 year old palmwine tapper,
identified as Mr. Inibu, was killed
yesterday by suspected Fulani
herdsmen at Ofagbe community,
Isoko North Local Government Area,
Delta State, while trying to collect
palmwine in a bush along the
community’s road to Ashaka, in
Ndokwa East Local Government Area
of the state.

While another man, Mr. Thompson
Ogege was severely injured by the
herdsmen.

The Olotu-Logbo of the Ofagbe
Kingdom, Othuke Omejedo said:

“One woman ran to me that as she
was going to the market, she met the
lifeless body of a boy lying on the
ground on the road leading to
Ashaka. She said another one was
injured.”

He said the body of the deceased had
been deposited in a mortuary at
Ozoro, while the one that was
injured, had been taken to a nearby
hospital.

Omejedo said the injured victim told
to them that they were attacked by
the Fulani herdsmen as they were
tapping their palmwine.

He said: “We have never had any
problem with the herdsmen because
they have not been living in this
community.”