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Three Bayelsa Youths Feared Dead as Security Operatives Open Fire on Protesters

  • Date of Occurrence
    September 4, 2021
  • State/Country
    Bayelsa, Nigeria
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The people of Otuasega community in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have alleged that three of their youths have gone missing since Friday when security operatives reportedly opened fire during a demonstration against the neglect of the Otuasega-Imiringi Road

According to a report by the Independent, the protesting youths accosted the operators of a long-haulage vehicle conveying a swamp buggy excavator through the Otuasega-Imiringi Road and demanded two tipper trucks of chippings to fill some bad portions of the deplorable road.

The youths stated that the road was damaged by frequent plying by heavy-duty vehicular machines belonging to contractors working for the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) in the area.

The placard-carrying protesters barricaded the SPDC gas line manifold along the Otuasega-Imiringi road and threatened to shut down the facility if their demand was not met.

It was gathered that while the negotiation for the chippings was ongoing, a surveillance contractor to the oil giant alerted the security personnel attached to a nearby SPDC facility who stormed the place and started shooting sporadically.

The incident caused panic and confusion as the community youths were said to have scampered in different directions for fear of being hit by bullets fired by the security operatives.

The Chairman of Otuasega Community Development Community, Marcus Raniya claimed that three youths had not been found since the dust of the commotion settled.

Narrating the incident, he said: “We discovered that the heavy-duty vehicular machines have really destroyed the road so we only pleaded with the Shell contractors to come and pour chipping on the road.

“While we were still discussing, a particular man who is always seen around where the soldiers are guarding Shell gas line, a surveillance man that is doing the gas work, left and came back with two soldiers and one NSCDC officer and shot at us indiscriminately.

“As we speak to you, three of our community boys are still missing, we don’t know their whereabouts. While searching for them in the bush, we only saw a cellphone belonging to one of them.

“We are demanding for our missing youths and the soldiers that shot at them. I had gone to the Shell camp and complained about what has happened to the commander there and he said he was sorry over what has happened and promised to call the commander at the gas line.

“But when I got to the gas line, the commander there said he did not know me and that he was not going to discuss with me.”

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  • Date of Occurrence
    2021-09-04
  • State/Country
    Bayelsa
  • Perpetrator
    Security Operatives
  • Source
    http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/04/three-bayelsa-youths-feared-dead-security-operatives-open-fire-protesters
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Bayelsa, Nigeria

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  • South South
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  • Freedom of Association & Assembly
Mode of Attacks
  • Disruption and Criminalization of Protests
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