How Fruit Seller Was Gang-Raped And Killed By Fulani Herdsmen In Ondo

 A housewife, Mrs. Roseline Joguntan has reportedly lost her life after being gang-raped by suspected Fulani herders.

Late Roseline, a fruit seller from Igbokoda in Ilaje council area of Ondo State, according to reports was murdered at her farm.

She was said to have gone to the farm to gather fruits as usual for her business with one of her children when she was attacked by the bandits.

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A source said that “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.

According to the indigenes of the town, Fulani herdsmen who have dominated the community in the recent past gang-raped and killed her.

One of the residents said” no sooner than the incident happened, some herdsmen were seen vacating the town en masse.

The police command image maker, Funmilayo Odunlami while responding to the incident said that it was the husband of the deceased that informed the police when he could not reach his wife on phone.

Odunlami said that 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.

On its part, the Ilaje Security Council, through its Public Relations Officer (PRO), Prince Emorioloye Owolemi, while reacting to the incident, lamented the killing of Roseline while pleading with the state government to come to their aid.

“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 paralyzed.”

“Therefore, we are calling on the state government to please help in strengthening local vigilante in Igbokoda”, Owolemi said.

He 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.

“ We are determined to fight for justice on behalf of any of our citizens, and before things get out of hands in Igbokoda, all perpetrators need to face the full wrath of the law,” he stated.