Massive protest as NSCDC officials allegedly gun down two youths in Cross River
“One of the victims is Effiong Ezekiel, a staff of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company who was on duty. The other is a black marketer who was among those who gave the officers hot chase,” he alleged.
It was also gathered that the angry Bakassi youths protested the incident at the NSCDC divisional office and burnt a Toyota Hilux jeep. From Bakassi, the protesters headed to Calabar, the State capital which is 40 minutes drive from the LGA, with the dead body. Our reporter gathered that the angry Bakassi youths moved along Eta Agbor in Calabar Municipality to UNICAL main gate where they were stopped by a combined security team.
When newsmen contacted the State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Danjuma Elisha, he said that he got the information and that he was still interviewing his men about what happened.
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