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Anger As Police Bullet Hit Protesting Niger Delta Female Student

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2 years ago

October 28, 2021

The peaceful protest embarked upon by Niger Delta Students’ Union Government against the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, on alleged unfair treatment meted on them turned sour on Thursday morning as a female protester was hit by a stray bullet from a yet-to-be identified police man at the gate of the company in Benin City.

Selected students from the nine oil producing states of the Niger Delta in collaboration with Ijaw Youths Council IYC Western Zone started the peaceful protest yesterday morning as they accussed the company’s management of not fulfilling an agreement reached for a workshop organised for them by the company.

The students had on Wednesday prevented members of staff from accessing the building complex and urged the management to implement the agreement reached at the recent PIA workshop themed “Upstream (E & P) sector of the Petroleum Industry Act and its corporate social responsibilities to host communities in the Niger delta region.”

The victim, it was gathered, was among the 50 participants selected across the nine Niger Delta States under the aegis of Niger Delta Students’ Union Government for the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) workshop organized by the NPDC in Benin City

Coordinator of the PIA workshop, Emieye Romeo, who led other students to the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ, Edo State council, Benin City to protest against the alleged shooting of their fellow student, said they were at the NPDC earlier on Thursday (today) to continue their ongoing dialogue with the management when the young lady was shot by the police.

Romeo said they reconvened at the company’s gate hoping that the management would meet and possibly respond to their demands but when the policemen arrived the scene, one of them shot repeatedly to disperse the crowd of protesters and, unfortunately, the bullet hit the student’s leg.

“The lady that got hit by the bullet has been rushed to the hospital. We were here yesterday but they didn’t respond to us. We decided to come back today to air our grievances so that they can fulfill the agreement they had with us before the training began.”

Some of the demands they want the company to accede to are the provision of logistics, stipends and operational tools such as laptop.

Responding, Kontongs Bello, Edo State police spokesperson, said he was at Okada and was yet to be briefed about the incident.

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Hoodlums suspected to be political thugs have reportedly snatched ballot papers meant to be used for local government elections in Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo state.

DAILY POST gathered that the ballot papers were hijacked by the hoodlums in the early hours of Friday.

The ballot papers are to be used in the local government election slated for Saturday.

The Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC, is conducting the election in all the 33 local government areas in the state.

A source noted that the snatched ballot papers have been recovered from the suspects.

He added that about 14 suspects have been arrested.

The source who bagged not to be named, also revealed that the affected ballot papers have been taken back to Ibadan.

OYSIEC Chairman, Isiaka Olagunju, when contacted, confirmed the attack on electoral officials.

He, however, said that no ballot paper was snatched.

Olagunju, in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Friday, maintained that the Divisional Police Officer in the town has been mandated to arrest the suspects.

“That is not true. The fact is that there was an attack on our officials last night.

“Our officials were attacked at our office at Okeho. No ballot paper was snatched.

“In fact, the DPO of Okeho and other security agencies followed our EO to come back to Ibadan. They just went back to Okeho now. And we have directed the DPO of Okeho to arrest the suspects. That is what happened.”

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Operatives of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission FCCPC on April 25, raided supermarkets in Port Harcourt, seizing underweight and re-bagged rice.

The commission disclosed this on its X handle.

It wrote:‘’FCCPC’s South-South Zonal Office conducted a routine enforcement operation in some supermarkets in the Woji area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, targeting underweight and re-bagged rice. Products that were suspected to be substandard were evacuated for further investigation.”