INDIAN HEMP DEALERS ASSAULTS FARMERS, THREATEN TO KILL ALL MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY OVER A BAG OF MISSING INDIAN HEMP IN ONDO
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A farmer, Martina Akpan and his family was severely beating, humiliated and received the shock of their life when hoodlums who are allegedly Indian hemp dealers in search of a missing Indian hemp bag kept on their farmland paid them a visit at Bolorunduro, in Akure North local government area of Ondo State.
Isaac Akpan, the younger brother of Martina was first attacked on the farmland before Martina skillfully sneaked out to inform her father, Joseph Akpan, 72 that she saw about 40 hoodlums with dangerous weapons on their farmland and that they have beating Akpan to a coma asking him to produce the missing bag of India hemp.
Martina with her father then traced the hoodlums to Ilu-Abo which is few kilometers from Bolorunduro, on getting there; they met Akpan in a lifeless state. When the hoodlums sighted the two of them, they pounced on her and her father and beat them till when they fainted.
She said, “I went to the farm very late on the fateful day because I just had a miscarriage and was tired but decided to join my husband and brother at the farm because we had left the farm unattended to for some days because of my father in-law burial.
“I saw about 40 of them on 15 motorcycles, and I saw my brother who had been beaten and injured tucked into some two persons on one of the bikes, I had to turn back and I was told he had been taken to Ilu-Abo.
“I went there with our father, only to find my brother has been beaten injured and immediately they saw us, they descended on us and beat my father to coma, demanding to know where the bags of Indian hemp were kept.
“My father fainted and as I tried to touch him, they matchetted me while some of them beat me with sticks and I also fainted because I have lost a lot of blood.”
She added that the hoodlums bragged that they cannot be arrested, threatened to wipe out the whole family if they failed to produce the bags of the Indian hemp, disclosing that some officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, were invited to the scene “who advised them to hand us over to police”.
Confirming the incident, the State’s Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Femi Joseph, who disclosed that some arrests have been made in connection with the development, maintained that investigation is still on to apprehend others involved in the crime.
He also confirmed that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Gbenga Adeyanju, has ordered the transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department, CID.
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