Herdsman allegedly kills farmer who attacked him with catapult and cutlass

The police in Ogun State have arrested a herdsman, Muhammad Garba, for allegedly killing a farmer, Segun Akinlade, in Imala.

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Saturday, said preliminary investigation revealed that trouble started when the deceased got to his newly-cleared farmland and met the suspect grazing his cattle there.

In order to chase him away, he used a catapult to scare the intruder, but the catapult stone hit the herdsman on the forehead. This infuriated the suspect who brought out a cutlass to fight the deceased who was also with a cutlass.

The two of them used cutlass on each other, resulting to the death of the deceased. The corpse of deceased has been deposited in the mortuary for autopsy.