By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
FOLLOWING the carnage during a protest in Ughelli against alleged indiscriminate arrest of suspected internet frauds by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Delta State government has sued for calm.
Stonix News reports that angry youths on Tuesday blocked the Otovwodo junction axis of the East West road obstructing vehicular movements in protest against EFCC’s alleged high-handedness.
Earlier last Thursday September 29, operatives of the antigraft agency had nabbed no fewer than 95 suspected internet fraudsters otherwise known as Yahoo Yahoo in Warri and environs during a sting operation.
So, the Tuesday protest that started peacefully degenerated into an orgy of violence when security operatives were reportedly drafted to the scene to clear the ever busy critical road.
The violence that followed left three persons feared dead and over 12 trucks burnt to ashes while about 16 suspects were arrested in connection with the mayhem.
But addressing journalists at a news conference in Asaba on Wednesday, Commissioner for Information and Spokesperson, Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation, Mr Charles Aniagwu, said an investigation into the mayhem has been instituted.
The commissioner said that the call for calm had become necessary to make the people not to act outside the law, stressing that everyone, irrespective of status, was under the law.
He reasoned that the EFCC was a creation of the law and could operate anywhere in the country, while also stressing that such must be done with the law.
According to Aniagwu, the state government had ordered an investigation into the imbroglio, as to whether the EFCC or the aggrieved youths acted within the law or otherwise.
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