Herdsmen In Ebonyi State Rape Us In Front Of Our Husbands - Victim says

 


COMMERCIAL activities were yesterday paralyzed in Abakaliki following a protest staged by aged women over the alleged rape of a 70-year- old woman to coma on gun point by a herdsman in the State.

The protesters who hail from Mgbom in Isu community, Onicha Local Government area of the state, baricaded some major business areas including Fatilami Park and Ezza road among other places. Addressing journalists, the leader of the group, Florence Okoro alleged that herdsmen have been raping them and their daughters at gunpoint, adding that the herdsmen also carted away their food items that include yams, garri and other belongings.

 “The herdsmen have been raping us and our daughters and that is why we came to protest to the government to come to our rescue because we have had enough of these inhuman treatment from them. The government should help us because we are dying of hunger caused by these herdsmen who have destroyed our crops and other properties. “If we cook our food, they will come inside our house and take it and eat. We are farmers and we cannot do anything. 

The worst of it is that the horsemen rape us in front our husbands. Our culture forbids a woman from having sex with another man. If it happens, you cannot come out or talk in public again because you are a forbidden person. “These horsemen have defiled us and we are worth nothing in our culture. We are calling on our governor to tell the horsemen to leave us alone and they should pack out from our land,” she lamented.

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