Yenagoa—Protesting ex-militants, yesterday, barricaded the Mbiama
axis of the East-West Road over alleged non-payment of their allowances by the
amnesty office.
File: Ex-militants
The protesters, led by the Bayelsa
State Third Phase Amnesty chairman, Ebi John, trooped to the road as early as
7a.m., and blocked the road, obstructing free flow of traffic.
Motorists and travellers plying the
route were stranded as the protesters chanted war songs demanding the payment
of their allowances without further delay.
But military patrol vans and two
Armoured Personnel Carriers, APCs, driven by soldiers were said to have swooped
on the youths.
The soldiers were said to have shot
into the air many times to dislodge the youths from the road.
John accused the amnesty office of
insensitivity, adding that the office and the Accountant-General were
deliberately delaying their allowances.
He said they earlier went to Abuja
to lodge the same complaint but the Amnesty office unleashed terror on them
using soldiers
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