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Alfred Diette-Spiff, the Amayanabo (King) of Twon-Brass Community in Bayelsa, host of Agip’s Crude Export Terminal, has fled his community following a violent protest against a lingering power outage in the community.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday, learnt that King Diette-Spiff had addressed the protesters and urged them to disperse and leave the premises of Agip as discussions with the oil firm to resolve the dispute continued in Port Harcourt.
The aggrieved community members, who had blocked access to the oil firm’s offices, shunned the appeal by the king and became restive and hauled missiles at him, hence he was whisked off to avert further violence.
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Alfred Diete-Spiff, Traditional Ruler of Brass Flees Kingdom Over Protests Against AGIP
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Alfred Diete-Spiff, the traditional ruler of the Twon Brass community in Bayelsa, hosts to Agip’s Crude Export Terminal, has fled his kingdom as the protests against the oil company took a turn a bad turn.
The people of the kingdom are protesting against a two-month power outage, caused by Agip.
Diete-Spiff had addressed the protesters and urged them to disperse and leave the premises of Agip, as discussions with the oil firm to resolve the dispute continued in Port Harcourt.
The aggrieved community members, who had blocked access to the oil firm’s offices, shunned the appeal by the traditional ruler and became restive and hauled missiles at him.
The aggrieved community members, who had blocked access to the oil firm’s offices, shunned the appeal by the traditional ruler and became restive and hauled missiles at him, as he was immediately whisked off the scene to avert further violence. Mr
Edward Edison, Youth President of Twon Brass told NAN that the timely intervention of the youths and armed security personnel deployed to the oil firm had doused the situation, though a 24-year old was shot in the process. He explained that King
Diete-Spiff had to leave the community in a hurry to avert escalation of the situation as the residents vowed to remain in the premises of Agip until power was restored.
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