On Saturday, November 24, 2018, 54-year-old pipeline guard, Anthony Ejabare was killed by suspected herdsmen as he tried to prevent them from raping his wife in Edjekota community of Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

According to The Vanguard, only the palace chiefs prevented aggrieved members of the Edjekota Community from taking Ejabare’s corpse into the palace of the Ovie of Ogor Kingdom did they turn back. They did it as protest for their lost kin.

Upon refusal, the protesters took the corpse to Ughelli Area Command, where senior police officers Mrs. Ejabare’s statement.

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A community source told Vanguard that, “Efforts to take the corpse into the palace were resisted by chiefs, leading to a clash, until the Police intervened.”

A source at the Area Command told Vanguard that, “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.”

Again, God save Delta State.