Residents of Bonny Local Government Area in Rivers State on Thursday, January 14, 2021, carried out a fresh protest, this time they stormed the Government House and Rivers State House of Assembly in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
The protesters are calling for an immediate end to the attacks and killings on the Bonny Island waterway by pirates.
The protesters, mainly the youths marched from UTC junction on Azikiwe road to Government House Port Harcourt to register their grievances and to the Rivers State House of Assembly where the member representing Bonny Constituency, addressed them.
Part of their demands is for the government to set up security checkpoints on the Bonny high sea and empower security agencies to tackle violent crime.
The Rivers State Government in July 2019 launched a special security initiative, codenamed “Operation Sting” in which patrol vehicles and gunboats were donated to security agencies to tackle violent crimes on roads and waterways in the state.
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