Margaret Udiamehi was today raped and beheaded by suspected herdsmen in Ekpoma, Esan West LGA in Edo State.
The body of the elderly woman was found on Tuesday night by a search party after she failed to return home from the farm but unfortunately, the police discovered her beheaded head on Wednesday morning at a different location away from her farmland.
Angered by the brutal killing, women in the locality took to the streets of Ekpoma to demand expulsion of all herdsmen from the village and its Environs.
The protesters went to the palace of Onojie of Ekpoma and the Divisional Police headquarters to vent and protest in anger.
They said a woman earlier escaped from the herdsman who pursued her but they took her cutlass.
Speaking on behalf of the protesters, one of the women who gave her name as Grace said they were tired of watching strangers destroyed their crops, rape and kill women in the village.
She called for government protection to allow them go to the farm.
The Daughter of the deceased woman who was also raped said her mother left for farm in the morning and did not return home which made a search party from the village to go looking for her but was unfortunately found dead.
She said they searched through the night before her naked body was discovered at about 2am and her head chopped off.
Divisional Police Officer in Ekpoma, SP Franklin Akanonu, who confirmed the killing assured the protesters that the killers would be apprehended.
He urged the protesters to provide information that would help apprehend those behind the killing.
Sources revealed that policemen were deployed to the Ujuelen camp of Fulani herdsmen to protect them from any possible reprisal attacks
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