Man survives machete attack at Magboro bus stop

A professional driver, Lukman Adegboyega Oosha, had a narrow escape on Friday night when he was attacked by hoodlums suspected to be of Northern extraction, at Magboro, Ogun State .

 

Oosha told MicroSecondNews he was waiting for a bus or okada (commercial motorcycle) at Magboro bus stop between 9 and 10 pm when he saw a group of boys rushing in his direction. 

 

"I didn't suspect any untoward thing as I didn't have anything to do with them. I didn't really paid them much attention.

 

"I just stepped aside and continued to wait for my transport home.

 

"It was a near fatal mistake as I suddenly felt a vicious cut on the back of my head where the neck meets the head and blood gushed out.

 

"As I collapsed, I could see that I was attacked with a matchete. The boys ran along speaking their language.

 

"They didn’t waste time on me, or they thought the blow had finished me. I struggled to my feet and rested against something, brought out my phone, because they didn’t steal anything from me. I managed to call my wife before I lost consciousness and fell by the road side. 

 

"My family found me there and brought me to a hospital where I am currently receiving treatment. I'm lucky to be alive. They aimed at my neck."

 

When asked how he knew they were Fulani, he said from their appearance and the language they were speaking. 

 

Oosha's friend, simply identified as Yusuf, said Oosha was lucky that it was not one of those busy traffic days that impatient drivers drive on the road shoulders. He said a careless driver would have crushed him as he lay unconscious. 

 

He appealed to people who pass through the entire Long Bridge, Warewa, Arepo, Magboro. Mowe and Aseese part of the Lagos Ibadan Express way to be more careful as there seemed to be an upsurge of blood thirsty hoodlums on the prowl especially after dark.

 

He said another friend was macheted on the back on the Long Bridge last week. 

 

"His car broke down and he was walking to the bus stop when a hoodlum suspected to be a renegade herdsman leapt out of the bush. He ran but the 'Bororo' was able to deal him a matchete on the back. He managed to run to the bus stop and was taken to the hospital.

Herdsmen destroyed my cassava farm, Cleric cries out in Ekiti

 

The founder of the House of Faith Christian Church Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State, Rev Tunde Afe has lamented the invasion and destruction of his cassava farm by suspected herdmen in Ekiti.

Afe spoke against the backdrop of an announcement by the Commissioner for Agriculture in Ekiti State, Olabode Olatoyi,  that no farm was destroyed by herdsmen in the state last week.

The commissioner made the announcement  following a report of an alleged destruction of a multi-million naira maize farm belonging to members of the Maize Grower Processing Marketer Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN) in Aduloju farmstead located along Ado-Ijan road in the state capital by herdsmen.

In a statement sent to newsmen on Thursday, Afe faulted the claims by the Commissioner, noting that his cassava farm in Itapaji, Ikole local government area of the state was destroyed by herders last week.

A one-time governorship aspirant in the state, Afe said political office holders should be cautious about playing politics with the precarious situation.

“It is wrong for some people to say ‘No single farm has been destroyed in Ekiti by Fulani herdsmen’ Please don’t play politics with this issue. These herdsmen destroy farms in Ekiti every day. For example, a section of my cassava farm at Itapaji Ekiti was eaten up by cows last week” he said.

According to him, farmers had stopped reporting to police because nothing came out of all the reports that had been made to them.

“These Fulani herdsmen are in Ekiti doing a lot of havoc. This is the third time they are destroying my farm”, he lamented.

When contacted, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Olatoyi said the government would make its position known to the public on the incident on Friday.