A witness to the March 14 killing of soldiers at the Okuama in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, has revealed that the gunmen, who came with four speedboats from the Bomadi axis to the community’s riverside and immediately opened fire on both soldiers and villagers, wore military camouflage.
The witness, an indigene of Okuama who spoke exclusively to Vanguard, said when the soldiers first entered the community on March 14, they asked for the chairman, who later came from the farm. They entertained them before they started dragging him to the waterside; the women resisted, and they started shooting.
Her words: “They insisted on going with him (the chairman); they dragged him with others. We held them and dragged them back. From there, the army started shooting, and some villagers fell, and there was a commotion.”
“We later heard that as the soldiers were going to the jetty, other boats with people wearing soldiers’ uniforms came and they started shooting everyone, which is how they killed the soldiers and our people.”
She, however, said she could not identify the gunmen because they wore soldiers’ uniforms, and she scampered away with her children and others for their dear lives into the bush.
