ADVERTISEMENT
NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. Published by Africa’s international award-winning journalist, Mr. Isaac Umunna, NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s first truly professional online daily newspaper. It is published from Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and media hub, and has a provision for occasional special print editions. Thanks to our vast network of sources and dedicated team of professional journalists and contributors spread across Nigeria and overseas, NEWS EXPRESS has become synonymous with newsbreaks and exclusive stories from around the world.
Two people were killed today when violence broke out at organised by the Save Rivers Movement (SRM) in the Khana area of Ogoniland, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed.
Rivers State PDP in a statement signed by the special adviser to the state chairman, Jerry Needam, described the sporadic shooting and disruption of the SRM rally in Bori as a local resistance by the people of Ogoni to the coming of the All Progressives Congress (APC), of which SRM is an affiliate.
Needam claimed in the statement that the violence was masterminded by the administration of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the SRM, and the APC in their bid to continue to create a state of insecurity to justify their call for the removal of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu.
Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), Mr. George Feyii, Deputy Speaker of House of Assembly, Hon. Leyii Kwanee, and several other loyalists of Governor Amaechi escaped death by whiskers when unknown gunmen shot sporadically to disrupt a political rally organised by the Save Rivers Movement (SRM).
A similar rally organised last week Sunday in Rumuola by SRM also ended in violence.
•Photo shows Rivers Police Commissioner, Joseph Mbu.
