Ex-militants protest non-payment of salaries, block road

Irate former militants at the weekend barricaded the DSC-NPA Expressway by Ughelli Junction roundabout in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State to protest the non-payment of their two months’ salaries and allowances by the Federal Government.
The militants arrived the area in a Marcopollo luxury bus at 8:30am. They made use of disused tyres and other junks to stop the flow of traffic on the ever-busy expressway.

This led to gridlock, which lasted for many hours. Spokespersons for the protesting group, Kenneth Ebi and Perez Ebi, told journalists that they were former militants drawn from across the Niger Delta Region undergoing apprenticeship programmes in welding and fabrication in Warri.
The protesters alleged that the Federal Government had failed to pay their salaries, feeding and accommodation allowances in the last two months, leaving them hungry and stranded in the hotel they had been staying in the last eight months.
The hotel bill, according to them, runs into several millions of naira. They also claimed that efforts to get across to the Amnesty Office in Abuja were futile. However, armed security agents persuaded the former militants to leave the road after about two hours.
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