Hundreds of angry women from Kokori in Delta State took to the streets in nude protest, demanding the withdrawal of soldiers on “internal security operation” from their community.
The women joined by youths, last week, carried out a civil disobedience against government, soldiers on “internal security operation” in the troubled area, their monarch and notable elite.
Kokori is the country home of Delta suspected kidnap kingpin, Kelvin Oniarah, arrested September 25, by a combined team of Department of State Service, DSS, and the army, while staying in an hotel in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
The women, angry that they were prevented from selling in the market, penultimate Saturday, by soldiers who upturned their wares for allegedly selling food items to the boys causing problem for the government, were further infuriated by the report they received when they got home that soldiers broke into the community shrine for the second time and destroyed every object at sight even after the chief priest, Michael Omonigho, had been taken into custody.
Citing the schools in the community, health centre and markets that had been forced to shut down because of the siege to the town by soldiers, who accused of beating up their men, they embarked on a protest, and, stunningly, they prevented soldiers from entering the town for several hours on Monday.
Accusing the soldiers of chasing away their husbands and desecrating their custom and tradition, the women, acting on unconfirmed information that soldiers wanted to demolish the Igban shrine, formed a human shield around the shrine and prevented them from purportedly executing the mission.
They did not spare the leaders of the community, the elite, led by their monarch, Ovie of Agbon Kingdom, Ogurime-Rime, Ukori 1, who they accused of looking the other way while the community was under siege by agents of government and soldiers. Consequently, they carried caskets and deposited them at the palace of the monarch and homes of some prominent sons of the town.
Despite the expressed wrath of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan over the alleged support they gave their suspected kidnapper- son, Kelvin, the women maintained that the community was being marginalized as stated by the alleged kidnap kingpin and asked the governor to develop Kokori.
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The women joined by youths, last week, carried out a civil disobedience against government, soldiers on “internal security operation” in the troubled area, their monarch and notable elite.
Kokori is the country home of Delta suspected kidnap kingpin, Kelvin Oniarah, arrested September 25, by a combined team of Department of State Service, DSS, and the army, while staying in an hotel in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
The women, angry that they were prevented from selling in the market, penultimate Saturday, by soldiers who upturned their wares for allegedly selling food items to the boys causing problem for the government, were further infuriated by the report they received when they got home that soldiers broke into the community shrine for the second time and destroyed every object at sight even after the chief priest, Michael Omonigho, had been taken into custody.
Citing the schools in the community, health centre and markets that had been forced to shut down because of the siege to the town by soldiers, who accused of beating up their men, they embarked on a protest, and, stunningly, they prevented soldiers from entering the town for several hours on Monday.
Accusing the soldiers of chasing away their husbands and desecrating their custom and tradition, the women, acting on unconfirmed information that soldiers wanted to demolish the Igban shrine, formed a human shield around the shrine and prevented them from purportedly executing the mission.
They did not spare the leaders of the community, the elite, led by their monarch, Ovie of Agbon Kingdom, Ogurime-Rime, Ukori 1, who they accused of looking the other way while the community was under siege by agents of government and soldiers. Consequently, they carried caskets and deposited them at the palace of the monarch and homes of some prominent sons of the town.
Despite the expressed wrath of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan over the alleged support they gave their suspected kidnapper- son, Kelvin, the women maintained that the community was being marginalized as stated by the alleged kidnap kingpin and asked the governor to develop Kokori.
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if turely the community gods is alive, let him fight for himself, by preventing the soldiers from destroying him, the soldier did what is right, bcos the traders are aiding and abating
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