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The Delta State chapter of the Committee For Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has called for the arrest and prosecution of the herdsmen who invaded a farmland belonging to one Happy Akpomiemie, in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area if the state about two weeks ago and shot the couple at a close range.

While the body of Happy Akpomiemie (54) an Abraka indigene and a father of 11 children who was shot right on his head was still being kept in the mortuary of a private hospital in Abraka, his wife still on danger list at the intensive care unit of Delta state University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, where she’s being treated.

Members of the CDHR in the state led by its Chairman, Comrade Kehinde Prince Taiga, who paid a solidarity visit to the family of the deceased in Abraka at the weekend, urged the Commissioner of Police, CP Muhammadu Mustafa, to do everything within his power to ensure that those behind the dastardly act were not only arrested but persecuted accordingly.

Even as he commended the police boss for visiting the family of the deceased in Abraka last week and making a donation of an hundred thousand naira (N100, 000. 00) for the children up keep, Comrade Taiga, noted that no amount of money can serve as justice to the bereaved family, especially the children, insisting that the police in the state bring the perpetrators to book.

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He appealed to the state governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, to consider taking up the responsibility of sponsoring the one of deceased children currently preparing for JAMB examination to the University in order to be able to assume the role of the family bread winner.

He also charged both the Lawmaker representing the area in State House Assembly, Hon. Chief Evance Ochuko Ivwurie and the Chairman, Ethiope East Local Government Area, on the need to offer scholarship to at least four of his children from primary all through to the secondary level.

On the body of the deceased still in the mortuary, Comrade Taiga, urged the council to take up the all the expenses regarding the burial and further pleaded with the state government to cancel all the medical bills of the wife’s treatment at the Delta state University Teaching Hospital, Oghara.

Members of the CDHR later went on to present the deceased children a token cash donation to assist in their welfare.

It would be recalled that on February 21, 2018, the deceased a crop farmer and his wife had gone to their farmland to harvest some cassava when they met herdsmen feeding their cattle on the farm, the challenge they put up against such act, saw the herdsmen reigning bullets on the couple.