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Security agent kills another citizen as angry women protest COVID-19 lockdown in Delta

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A yet to be identified young man has been shot dead as women and some youths protested the lockdown over COVID-19 in Sapele, Delta State.

The protest championed by women followed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s extension of stay-at-home order in the state for another two weeks.

Hundreds of the angry protesters were marching along Okpe Road in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State when the young man was shot dead.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, who confirmed the incident, said the young man was shot by a vigilante member.

He said he had asked the DPO to go and get the vigilante member, adding that the situation was under control now.

The vigilante member was said to be among the security agents that tried to calm the protesters.

Meanwhile, the angry women were chanting “we need food,” “we don’t want to listen”.

One of them, Mrs Rosslyn Akpamredo, who spoke during the protest said:

“Instead of hunger to kill me and my children, we will prefer the Chinese Coronavirus to kill us and let Okowa come and bury us, if we die. We cannot stay at home without food and light. Let Gov. OKowa send his soldiers to kill all of us and bury us.”

According to her, the governor should lift the extension and lock only borders.

READ ALSO: Security agents have killed more Nigerians while enforcing lockdown than covid-19 —Report

A report by National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) showed that Nigeria’s security agencies have killed 18 Nigerians over measures to protect them from COVID-19 pandemic.

As the time the report was released, the virus had killed 11 Nigerians, indicating that more people had died as a result of extrajudicial killing.

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