Black Tuesday As Explosion Kills Protester In Rivers

A middle-aged protester carrying dynamite was killed on Tuesday while trying to discharge an explosive in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. 

GWG.ng gathered that the tragic incident happened in front of Hotel Presidential at about 9.45am on Tuesday. 

According to the Nigerian Tribune, an eyewitness said the corpse of the victim was taken away hurriedly as security agents trooped to the location. 

Another eyewitness, who spoke under condition of anonymity, said that the protesters caused heavy traffic while on procession to their destination. 

Some supporters of the minister of the federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, defied police order to stage a protest over the local government tenure elongation crisis in Rivers state on Monday, June 24, The Punch reports. 

The protesters, numbering about 100 displayed placards with several inscriptions to explain their actions near the post office along Azikiwe Road in Port Harcourt. 

 The Rivers APC Caretaker Committee (CTC) chairman, Tony Okocha, had earlier called for a state of emergency in the state. Okocha said a state of emergency is needed to forestall further killings and disturbances in the state.

GWG.ng reports that the protester killed on Tuesday further raised the number of mortalities arising from the political crisis in Rivers State following the earlier death of a policeman and a member of a vigilante group.

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