Showing posts with label Yenagoa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yenagoa. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Niger Delta ex-militants riot in Bayelsa



Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital was thrown into pandemonium as residents ran for cover when about 400 former militants protested the allocation of training slots to them.

A car parked along Otiotio road was razed and the windscreens of no fewer than 12 cars were smashed.

Shops were randomly looted on this road and Mbiama-Yenagoa at Yenezuegene axis of the state capital.

This forced panicky shop owners the area hurriedly close their business premises. The panic caused a traffic gridlock, with many owners of vehicles caught up in the melee, abandoned them right on the road.