Two female primary school
teachers of Onigbedu community in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State
were on Thursday attacked by suspected herdsmen.
It was gathered that the teachers
who sustined serious injuries were on their to school at Atola village when two
herdsmen accosted and afflicted machete cuts on them.
The Chairman of Ewekoro North
LCDA, Mr. Kehinde Adepegba, who confirmed the incident to Punch, said that the
affected teachers had since been moved from the maternity hospital they were
initially into a government-owned medical facility in the Ijaiye area of the
state.
He said, “The Ogun State
Government has taken over the case and as we speak the affected teachers have been
transferred from our maternity hospital at Onigedu to the Ogun State General
Hospital at Ijaiye. They are receiving treatment and are recuperating.
“Following the incident, all
security agencies in the state have been placed on the alert. As a matter of
fact, I even learnt that some arrests have been made. While still searching for
the perpetrators of the attack; we have put certain strategies in place to
forestall against a similar occurrence in future.
“From preliminary reports, we
gathered that the herdsmen who carried out the attack only recently migrated to
the area. They are not part of the Fulani community cohabiting with the locals.
They are unknown in the locality but they will be apprehended.”
The Police Public Relations
Officer in Ogun, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, saying two persons
were arrested but later set free upon discovery that the suspects were known
faces among the residents of the area.
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