Indigenes of Takete Ide community in Kogi West Senatorial district were on Tuesday angry as a herdsman attempted to rape her on her farm.
The woman was said to have gone to farm on the fateful day which is behind one Chief Omoniwa’s house in the outskirts of Takete Ide when the herdsman entered her farmland with cattles.
The traumatized woman narrated that she first watched cattles eating up her crops and didn’t make a word to avoid being killed.
After, the herdsman led the cattles away from her farm and shortly returned only to make sexual advances to her, but she refused and the herdsman became violent.
The terrified woman shouted and picked race. The unfazed herder followed her in quick steps, dangling a machete and shouting “dori falafala.”
Both engaged in struggle with the terrified woman already having some machete cuts, when luckily a motorcyclist arrive the scene only for the Fulani man to flee.
This was confirmed by CAPITAL POST from the trending social media handle of some persons in the community. The indigenes are calling for government intervention as well as the leaders of Fulani socio-cultural group to call their members to order.
Some social media handlers wrote:
“It is really scary. So, the Bororos no longer wait in the bushes to curse harm for us but you can go to nearby bush to ease oneself and end up being harmed by them.
“You can imagine what could have happened without somebody passing by. Government should please come to our aid,” retiree said on one of the platforms.
In the same vein, an Abuja based businessman and community leader, “Prince Dare Fiki, also raised alarm over the harassment of women in lonely places and other security violations by herders in communities in Kogi West Senatorial Zone.
He urged government to urgently strengthen security in the area.
Fiki who is also President of Takete-Ide Progressive Union, TIPU, suggested the combined use of tested traditional safety methods and the conventional security personnel to tackle the menace.
“My appeal is to the government to come to our rescue. We have a situation where our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters are painfully being harassed and violated by this criminal group. All over Okun land, farms are no longer safe,” Fiki said.
