Tempers are running high in Karagi community in Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State following the beheading of a 45-year-old farmer by people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.
A member of the community said that the killing which happened on Sunday was the latest in a series of attacks on the indigens by Fulani herdsmen.
The victim who was identified as Adama Mohammed was reportedly working in his farm when he was attacked by his assailants.
With tempers rising high among the locals, Fulani herdsmen in the area are said to have fled for fear of reprisal attacks.
According to Amina, the wife of the diseased who is nursing a two month old baby, she raised the alarm when her husband did not return from the farm as expected.
The community then organized a search party which found the headless body of the victim in his farm with machete cuts all over.
A relation of the deceased said that he had been complaining about cattle destroying his crops for some time.
“This my cousin who just died now used to complain about the Fulanis. They used to carry their cows to come and destroy his own crops. I believe its through them that this thing happened," he said.
Another member of the community who was in the search party described how the victim was butchered by his killers.
“I followed the family members who came here to take him to the village. When we got here, there was machete wound on all parts of his body. After they killed him, they caught off his head and stabbed him on his stomach," he said.
The villagers are said to have been having running battles with Fulani herdsmen over the destruction of their crops by cattle.
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