From Adewale Momoh, Akure

Ogun women protest against killing of farmers, seek intervention

Residents of Odigbo Community in Odigbo Local Council of Ondo State have been thrown into a state of shock following the discovery of three headless bodies floating in a river along Odigbo-Ore Old Road.

Some locals, who stumbled upon the decomposing bodies floating with some lodged within the riverbanks, alleged that suspected ritualists and kidnappers might be responsible for the horrific act.

A youth leader of the community, who gave his name as Sileola, while expressing shock over the development, said that the victims might have been killed elsewhere and their bodies dumped in the river, as no reports of missing persons have been recorded in the area so far.

Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Olayinka Alayande, who confirmed the incident, said that the headless bodies had been evacuated and taken to the morgue.

RELATEDLY, women in Ogun State, yesterday, held a peaceful protest to call the attention of the government to the growing insecurity in the state. They specifically called on the government to take more decisive action against some criminal herders destroying what some farmers have planted and even killing the farmers if they dare raise a voice.

Leader of the protest, Adeshola Kogbodoku, who spoke with journalists at the state secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at Oke Ilewo, Abeokuta, said that they decided to embark on the peaceful protest to call the attention of the government to the growing insecurity challenge.

Kogbodoku said that the problem of insecurity should be directly blamed for the country’s acute food shortage and poverty, saying that now is the time for the government to tackle the problem headlong.

She, therefore, called on Governor Dapo Abiodun and President Bola Tinubu to double up efforts to tackle insecurity that has been making life so unbearable for the citizens.