Hundreds of Niger Delta ex-millitants of phases one to three of the Federal Government amnesty programme marched to the Government House in Asaba, the Delta State capital, to protest the “hijacking of the pipeline surveillance contract for the Trans-Forcados Pipeline”.
It took the combined efforts of various security agencies to calm down the protesters who blocked the Anwai road leading to the gate of the Government House on Wednesday.
The aggrieved youth called on Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, to “intervene to avoid crisis in the state as a result of the re-awarding of the surveillance contracts to people who are not familiar with the terrain”.
Speaking with journalists, Lord Tennyson, leader of the group, claimed that about 1,000 angry youth and ex-agitators from the 111 communities of Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri and Isoko ethnic nationalities, who are hosts to the OML…
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