By Tina Osoro/ Erica Oreva/Vera Ota/Tochi Chukwunweike
Delta State Commissioner for Information and Spokesperson, Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation, Mr Charles Aniagwu, has called for calm over the row between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and youth in Ughelli.
Aniagwu made the call at a news conference in Asaba today, while responding to questions from journalists.
The commissioner said that the call had become necessary to make the people not to act outside the law, stressing that everyone, irrespective of status, was under the law.
He reasoned that the EFCC was a creation of law and could operate anywhere in the country, while also stressing that such must be done with the law.
According to Aniagwu, the state government had order an investigation into the issue, to whether the EFCC or the youth acted within the law or not.
ln a related development,
the Chairman of Ughelli North Local Government Council, Chief Godwin Adode, today declared 6.00 pm to 6.00 am curfew in the Ughelli metropolis following the youth protest yesterday which allegedly led to the death of three persons with goods and properties worth millions of Naira destroyed.
Speaking to our correspondent in his office, the chairman disclosed that he was not around when the incident happened yesterday but was briefed by his subordinates.
Adode expressed disappointment over the situation, saying that he was saddened by the action of the youths in which three persons were allegedly killed, while goods and property worth millions of naira were destroyed in the area.
