Women shutdown Ebonyi community over ‘illegal’ arrest, detention of youths
iate release of youths of the village who were allegedly arrested and being detained at the state police command without justifiable reason.
It was gathered that 17 youths from the village are currently in police custody over trump-up allegations. One of the villagers, who spoke on behalf of the protesters, Chika Dike, said they are being persecuted by Ikpor and his loyalists from the village for trying to rebuild their village toilet.In a related development, another youths believed to be loyal to Ikpor staged a counter protest to deny the allegations levelled against him by the protesters.
“These APC people are causing problem in our community and elections are over. They are destroying people’s houses and other valuable property. So, we are urging them to desist from that. That’s why we are protesting”, he said.
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