Thursday, 26 December 2013

Four people were reported killed yesterday by the police in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom.

Following the incidence, about 100 youths protested the
killing and eventually dumped the bodies of two of the
victims in front of the police station along Eket Oron Road.
An indigene of the area, who pleaded for anonymity, said that
two other person shot by the police were rushed to the
hospital, but died on the way.

The aggrieved youths disrupted activities in some parts of
Eket. The protest caused traffic gridlock.
Shops were forced to close as the aggrieved youths, with
cutlasses and other weapons in their hands, matched to the
police station.

However, Akwa Ibom State Police Public Relation Officer
(PPRO), Mr. Etim Dickson, denied that the victims were
killed by the police.

Dickson said that more security operatives had been deployed
to calm the situation.

Via: Vanguard

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