Jethro Ibileke/Benin
Edo State-based Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), have threatened showdown with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), over alleged assault on one Innocent Okpara, on the instruction of an expatriate who works with the firm.
According to a statement endorsed by its spokesman, Osazee Edigin, the rights activists threatened to mobilize there members to shut the headquarters of the electricity distribution company.
“Two weeks ago, the BEDC disconnected a Nigerian by the name Innocent Okpara and the a White Man [name unknown] working with them ordered military personnel attached to him to assault him because he requested to have hold of his cables.
“We received his [Okpara] petition in our office, and the appropriate authorities were contacted to get justice for him.
“Afterwards, he made some payments of the…
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