Herdsmen Attacks: Delta Community Recounts Ordeal

The people of Agadama community of Uwheru Kingdom in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State have described the recent attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen as the worst hit in recent times, noting that the community has lost over 86 people since the attacks started in 2012.
Addressing the House of Representatives member representing Ughell-Udu constituency, Mr Francis Waive, community Chairman, Sunday Iniovogoma, said the attacks had an annual assault, adding that the people in the area are passing through difficulties.
Iniovogoma said eight persons were killed in the latest attack with several others sustaining severe injuries.
He alleged that some of the killings were done by the army stationed at the Bomadi Barrack.
“Please, kindly beg the Nigeria Chief of Army Staff for us that this incident should not occur anymore in our land, they are there to protect us because we are not slaves but indigenes of the soil and, if nothing is done, we will have no option but defend ourselves,” he told the federal lawmaker.
Also, a community leader, Chapman Oyibo Dickson, alleged that on February 12, “Fulani herdsmen in collaboration with the Nigeria Army based in Bomadi came to carry out assault on the executive of Port-Avwon community that was holding their meeting and all they could hear was ‘na una be dis’ and the next thing was gunshot killing two persons, and another six in the bush.