The lives of a family at an Ondo community are at risks after some hoodlums threatened to wipe them out over missing Indian hemp.

According to reports, the hoodlums, suspected to be hemp dealers, had attacked the family at Ogbese in Akure North Local Government Area the state.

They were alleged to have beaten to a pulp a woman, identified as Mrs Martina Christopher, her father and brother over the disappearance of bags of cannabis kept on the victims’ farmland.

They banned substances were reportedly kept on the farm with the victim’s permission or knowledge.

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However, the bags of cannabis could not be found when the hoodlums, numbering about 40, went to the farm to retrieve them last Thursday.

Suspecting foul play, the hoodlums descended on Martina’s brother, Isaac Akpan, who was working on the farm at the time.

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, Mr 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.”

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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.

The husband of the victim, Mr 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.

He appealed to the state government and the security agents to save his family from the hoodlums.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Femi Joseph, confirmed the incident 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 added.