Aggrieved
women in their hundreds besieged and barricaded the East-West road
during the early hours of Wednesday with planks of wood, leaves, tires
and chairs.
Protesting women block road
Thousands of travelers were stranded while commercial and social
activities were brought to a halt on Wednesday following the blockage of
the ever busy East-West Road by protesting women from Ohorhor community
in Ughelli North LGA of Delta State over what they called incessant
killing, raping and other attacks on indigenes of the community by armed
Fulani herdsmen.
According to SaharaReporters, the aggrieved women numbering over
100, besieged and barricaded the road during the early hours of
Wednesday with planks of wood, leaves, tires and chairs.
It was gathered that travelers, including the Assistant Inspector
General of Police, Zone 5, Abubakar Mohammed, who was traveling to
Yenagoa, Bayelsa State for an official assignment, were trapped in the
gridlock.
All efforts to vacate the road by the AIG and other personalities
and travelers en route to Port Harcourt could not yield any fruitful
results, as the women insisted that unless federal government takes
concrete steps to address the herdsmen attacks, they would remain on the
road.
Speaking with a correspondent, one of the women leaders, who gave
her name simply as Rukevwe, disclosed that the community has lost over
10 souls to the armed herdsmen while over 15 women, some of whom are
pregnant, have been raped in the bush by the herdsmen.
The protesting women therefore issued a four-day ultimatum to the
Fulani herdsmen to leave their community bush, saying that if they fail
to adhere to the ultimatum, they shall mobilize en masse to the
East-West Road with both their children and husbands.
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