WOMEN
in Iyede community, Isoko North local government area, Delta state, have shut
that axis of the busy Ughelli – Asaba Road to traffic in an intensifying
protest
over the menace of herdsmen in the area.
The women,
joined by the community youths and men at the background, set off for the mass
action at dawn, denying vehicles access to and fro on that axis.
“Our major
pain are the deaths, rape and trauma being suffered by our mothers and young
girls at the mercy of marauding herdsmen. If we can no longer go to our farms
again because of herdsmen, on what do we now survive as poor farmers.
“It is as
much inciting that the government of the day does not even care about our
plight. We will remain here. No car will past through Iyede till those who
should care give assurance that the herdsmen are out of our lives. They are no
more welcomed in our land”, one of the protesters screamed.
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