Suspected Indian hemp dealers at Ogbese in the Akure North Local
Government Area of Ondo State have allegedly beaten up a woman,
identified as Martina Christopher, her father and brother to a pulp over
the disappearance of bags of cannabis kept on the victims’ farmland.
According to reports, the Indian hemp dealers, numbering about 40, had
last Thursday invaded Martina’s farmland, located at Bolorunduro
village in the council area, to search for some bags of the cannabis
earlier kept on the farm. They were said to have met Martina’s brother,
Isaac Akpan, working in the farm. As the dealers could not find the
bags of cannabis, it was gathered that they accused Isaac of stealing
the product and thereafter tortured him before taking him away. Having
received the news of the incident, Martina and her father, Joseph Akpan,
were said to have traced the hoodlums to Ilu-Abo community in order to
rescue Isaac, but they too were beaten up by the alleged hemp dealers.
Narrating her ordeal, Martina said, “I went to the farm very late on
the fateful day to join my husband and brother on the farm, because we
had left the farm unattended to for some days. I met these people, about
40 of them on 15 motorcycles, then I saw my brother, who had been
beaten and injured, sandwiched between some of the hoodlums on one of
the motorcycles;I had to turn back and later, I was told that he had
been taken to Ilu-Abo. I then went to Ilu-Abo in company with our
father, only to see my brother mercilessly beaten and injured; and
immediately the hoodlums saw us, they descended on us and beat me and my
father to a pulp, demanding to know the whereabouts of the bags of
Indian hemp kept on our farm.My father fainted and as I tried to touch
him, they gave me a machete cut, while some of them beat me with sticks
and I also fainted, because I had lost a lot of blood.” She explained
that the hoodlums threatened to wipe out the entire family if they
failed to produce the missing bags of Indian hemp, adding that the
hoodlums bragged that no security operatives could arrest them. Husband
of the victim, Augustine Christopher, said he had to report the case at
the Area Command in Oba Ile, Akure, following the threat to wipe out his
family. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Femi
Joseph, confirmed the incident in a chat with Punch and said the command
had made some arrests over the matter. “The Commissioner of Police,
Mr Gbenga Adeyanju, has ordered that the matter should be transferred to
the State Criminal Investigation Department in Akure, while
investigation is ongoing,” Joseph said. Drug dealers beat a woman and her dad mercilessly after a package of Indian hemp they kept on her farmland went missing in Ondo State
Suspected Indian hemp dealers at Ogbese in the Akure North Local
Government Area of Ondo State have allegedly beaten up a woman,
identified as Martina Christopher, her father and brother to a pulp over
the disappearance of bags of cannabis kept on the victims’ farmland.
According to reports, the Indian hemp dealers, numbering about 40, had
last Thursday invaded Martina’s farmland, located at Bolorunduro
village in the council area, to search for some bags of the cannabis
earlier kept on the farm. They were said to have met Martina’s brother,
Isaac Akpan, working in the farm. As the dealers could not find the
bags of cannabis, it was gathered that they accused Isaac of stealing
the product and thereafter tortured him before taking him away. Having
received the news of the incident, Martina and her father, Joseph Akpan,
were said to have traced the hoodlums to Ilu-Abo community in order to
rescue Isaac, but they too were beaten up by the alleged hemp dealers.
Narrating her ordeal, Martina said, “I went to the farm very late on
the fateful day to join my husband and brother on the farm, because we
had left the farm unattended to for some days. I met these people, about
40 of them on 15 motorcycles, then I saw my brother, who had been
beaten and injured, sandwiched between some of the hoodlums on one of
the motorcycles;I had to turn back and later, I was told that he had
been taken to Ilu-Abo. I then went to Ilu-Abo in company with our
father, only to see my brother mercilessly beaten and injured; and
immediately the hoodlums saw us, they descended on us and beat me and my
father to a pulp, demanding to know the whereabouts of the bags of
Indian hemp kept on our farm.My father fainted and as I tried to touch
him, they gave me a machete cut, while some of them beat me with sticks
and I also fainted, because I had lost a lot of blood.” She explained
that the hoodlums threatened to wipe out the entire family if they
failed to produce the missing bags of Indian hemp, adding that the
hoodlums bragged that no security operatives could arrest them. Husband
of the victim, Augustine Christopher, said he had to report the case at
the Area Command in Oba Ile, Akure, following the threat to wipe out his
family. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Femi
Joseph, confirmed the incident in a chat with Punch and said the command
had made some arrests over the matter. “The Commissioner of Police,
Mr Gbenga Adeyanju, has ordered that the matter should be transferred to
the State Criminal Investigation Department in Akure, while
investigation is ongoing,” Joseph said. 
