Police Boss Intervenes as Delta Community Women Protest Half-naked over Monarch’s Detention

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Determined to secure the release of their kinsmen from indefinite police detention, over 500 half naked women of Egbudu-Akah in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State at weekend barricaded the entrance to the state police headquarters in Asaba.

This may not be unconnected with the alleged illegal detention of close to 10 people from the community over kingship tussle among two brothers.

The police are said to have detained them for weeks over the excuse that they are carrying out investigation, and to restore peace just as an elderly man was said to have died in the police custody over the matter.

The protesters, who besieged the headquarters at about 9 am, caused a heavy traffic grid on the Okpanam Road for over three hours.

While displaying placards which bore various inscriptions such as ‘Police are biased’; ‘Release our brothers and sisters to us’; ‘We cannot go to the farm again’; ‘Mr. President come to our rescue’, among others, the women also chanted songs of disenchantment and called on the federal government to prevail on the police authority to release their people back to them.

Spokeswoman of the group, Mrs. Mordi Onyeka, decried the illegal detention of their monarch with 11 other elders for over three months.