A 54-year-old pipeline guard, Anthony Ejabare, has been reportedly killed by herdsmen after attempting to prevent his wife from being raped.
It was reported that aggrieved members of the community took the corpse to the palace to stage a protest but met a waterloo after were resisted by chiefs, leading to a clash, until the Police intervened.
The sad incident occurred in the wife’s farm at Edjekota community of Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state.
A community source said the aggrieved family members of the deceased, with the support of some community members in protest, took the corpse to the palace of Ovie of Ogor Kingdom, in what chiefs of the kingdom described as sacrilegious.
According to Vanguard newspaper, A security source at the Area Command, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “From the statement given by widow, who is the witness, she was accosted by an armed herdsman who asked her to put down the cassava stems she carried on her head in an attempt to rape her else he was going to shoot her.
“While she was pleading with the gunman, her husband, who was stationed as a guard in a pipeline close to her farm, walked into them and upon sighting the husband, the assailant shot him and fled into the bush.”
