Pioneer Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abavo Ward 10, Elder Francis Amamosa, has reportedly been killed by suspected herdsmen.
The septuagenarian died of machete injuries after gunshots by his assailants failed to penetrate him. Vanguard reported that the killing has caused apprehension among residents of the Abavo community, Ika South Local Government Area, Delta State.
An eyewitness told the publication;
“He was on the farm working with some labourers; they were planting yams, so he now decided to go to another section, last year’s farm to get some yams that they were going to plant.
“He was riding on a motorcycle and while he was going, he met the herdsmen on the road and they attacked him. While he was on the motorcycle, they used cutlasses on him, so he fell and the motorcycle fell on him.
“They started shooting at him; the man on his own, he was somehow strong,. He was in their middle, so that was how they started using cutlasses on him.
“As they were doing that, he was shouting and the labourers, about five of them, were coming but the herdsmen stopped them at gunpoint.”
It was gathered that two other farmers were kidnapped by the herdsmen in the incident that occurred on Monday, April 29, in a farmland in the community.
The attack came three days after a palm wine tapper was reportedly ambushed and killed in a bush in the community by suspected armed herders who have been prowling the area in the last few months.
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