Afruit seller, Roseline Joguntan has been gang-raped and murdered on her farm by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Igbokoda in the Ilaje council area of Ondo State.
Vanguard reports that the culprits took advantage of the victim when she was alone on the farm.
According to the report, the deceased went to the farm alongside her daughter to gather fruits for her business and had instructed the child to take the fruits home.
A source was quoted as saying, “After gathering the first basket of the fruits, she told her child to take it home. It was when the girl came back that she noticed that her mother was missing before she later found her dead in the bush.
“The deceased husband, Mr Joguntan reported the case at the police station.”
Some of the residents alleged that the Fulani herdsmen who have dominated the community in the recent past gang-raped and killed her.
According to one of the residents “no sooner had the incident happened than some herdsmen were seen vacating the town en masse.”
In her reaction, the police spokesperson, Funmilayo Odunlami said the husband of the deceased informed the police about the incident after failed attempts to reach his wife on the phone.
Odunlami said it was when the husband went to the farm to check on her that he found her lifeless body in the pool of her blood.
She said that the killers would soon be exposed and brought to book.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of the Ilaje Security Council, Prince Emorioloye Owolemi, has lamented that the killings are becoming rampant in the council area and pleaded with the state government to come to their aid.
Owolemi said “It is so sad that Igbokoda is witnessing the highest security threat. It has become daily killings. People live in fear and business activities have paralysed.”
“Therefore, we are calling on the state government to please help in strengthening local vigilante in Igbokoda.”
Owolemi also called on the Commissioner of Police in Ondo State and other security agencies to, as a matter of urgency, unravel the circumstances that led to the killing of the housewife and bring the perpetrators to the book.
