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One person was yesterday allegedly shot when the people of Twon Brass in Brass Local Government Council staged a protest against Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) over a prolonged power outage, refusal to pay indigenous contractors and failure to meet its corporate social responsibility.
According to an eyewitness account, the supposed protest which began on Sunday 16th May 2020 and lasted till Tuesday eventually snow-balled into chaos when some youths hijacked the protest, attacked the Amayanabo of Twon Brass, HRM Alfred Diete-Spiff, while he in a meeting with the protesters to calm frayed nerves.
Tribune Online further learnt that after soldiers attached to the monarch, a former military administrator of old Rivers State, safely took him to his palace, the mob proceeded to the palace, started destroying properties and in the process a soldier in a bid to disperse the mob fired a warning shot that ricocheted off the ground, hitting one of the protesters on the leg.