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We won’t return home until herdsmen killings stop Ogun villagers who fled to Benin Republic The Punch
Daud Olatunji
My wife and I ran away to the Eegelu community in Benin Republic when killer herdsmen started invading our homes, killing and burning houses,” said Abiodun Abikale, one of the Ogun villagers who fled to Benin Republic.
Some villagers in villages in Yewaland such as Oha, Asa, Igbooro, Ibeku, Moro, Agbon-Ojodu among others fled their homes in Ogun State when marauding killer herdsmen unleashed terror on the areas, killing, maiming and destroying farms with cows.
Another Ogun resident whose wife was delivered of a baby in Benin Republic while taking refuge in the country after fleeing the state due to killings by the herdsmen, Monday Odu, said they left during the bedlam between farmers and herders in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of the state.
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Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta
Five pregnant Nigerian women have been delivered of babies at a make-shift Internally Displaced Persons camp located at a community in the neighbouring Benin Republic.
Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that the women were part of hundreds of residents of troubled communities in Yewaland, Ogun State, who fled to Benin Republic following alleged deadly attacks by suspected herdsmen.
One of the women was said to have had her baby delivered through a Caesarean operation in a Benin Republic hospital.
The residents were said to have fled to Eegelu, Ipobe, Igana, Ibore, Owode- Benin and Iga communities in Benin Republic.