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Adeyinka Adedipe
Published 8 May 2021
Hundreds of Itsekiri people on Friday stormed the Zone 5 Police Command in Benin, Edo State, protesting the continued police intervention in the crisis rocking the Olu of Warri stool.
The protesters requested the police to allow the chiefs to go back to Warri and resolve the issues amicably.
Bearing several placards, the protesters said the police intervention in the matter was a slight on the custom and tradition of the Itsekiri people.
One of the protesters’ leaders, David Iwere, said, “We are here as Itsekiri and we are tired of the media coverage the issue has generated. What is happening in Itsekiri has never happened before. We are here to appeal to the Assistant-Inspector General of Police to send all the chiefs home and give them time to come back and report the efforts that have been made to settle the matter.”