Dead Teachers' Pension: Police Injure Demonstrators in Uyo, Arrest 3
Dead Teachers' Pension: Police Injure Demonstrators in Uyo, Arrest 3
The children of the dead primary school teachers
had staged a peaceful match along the streets of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State
capital, to the state government house to protest government
lukewarm attitude toward the payments.
It was gathered that the demonstrators under the
aegis of Next-of Kin-of Late Primary School Teachers (NKLPST), Akwa Ibom State
were forced to disperse as security operatives at the government house gate
applied tear gas and gun buts on them.
In the
ensuring confusion some of the protesters were injured while three leaders of
the including the Kenneth Enobong, Benjamin Benson and Utibe Akpan were
arrested.
The state Deputy
Commissioner of Police (DCP), D.R. Abibo, was said to have ordered the use of
Amoured Personnel Carrier (APC), to drive the protesters numbering more than
150 away from the Government House gate.
“I told them to leave the road and stand
by the side so they can listen to me, but they disobeyed me as the Commissioner
of Police. Who are they, that they can’t listen or obey a simple
instruction…?”, Abibo, spoke angrily.
Journalists who were there to inquire about the grievances
of the demonstrators were not spared as the police equally applied tear gas to
scare them from the scene.
The pressmen who covering the protest, including the Chairman of
Correspondents’ Chapel, Denis Udoma, were also attacked with tear gas and
ordered to leave the scene with protesters.
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