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Governor
Rotimi Amaechi
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The Rivers
State Government has announced a curfew starting from today, Monday, March 30
between the hours of 7:00pm to 6:00am, GRAPHITTI NEWS report.
Our correspondent in Port Harcourt filed in a
statement from the State Government.
In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State
Government, George D. N. Feyii, the State Government said the curfew was imposed to
forestall breakdown of law and order.
Earlier in the day, some
women belonging to the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State were teargased
by policemen around the INEC headquarters on Aba Road after they tried to take
their grievances over Saturday’s presidential elections in the state to the
Commission’s office.
The women, donning
black attires and led by House of Representatives candidate for Ogu/Bolo Local
Government Area, Maureen Tamuno, came in several buses from various parts of
the state as early as 8:30am to pour out their frustrations.
Armoured tanks
barricaded the two lanes leading to INEC office while gun-wielding police and
military policemen in large numbers were positioned in strategic points in the
vicinity.
Monday’s protest by the
APC women followed Sunday’s version of the party’s youths from various parts of
the state to the Commission’s headquarters where gunshots were fired after the
protesters prevented an SUV believed to be conveying the PDP governorship candidate
in Rivers, Nyesom Wike, from leaving the area.
The APC youths also
attacked other vehicles moving in and out of the area.
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