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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