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    Edo State Government Silent over Edo North Massacre of Peaceful Protesters, the Gruesome Murder of Godwin Junior Iraoya (An Account of a Community Eyewitness)   By: Enaholo J.K. +2348069055018 auchiblog@gmail.com   When John F. Kennedy opined that “those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable”, he must have had the Nigerian #endSARS Protests at heart. For long, some personnel of the Nigerian force especially soldiers and police have unprofessionally wielded arms against harmless Nigerians. Dehumanization of Nigerians on the highway, in the market places and even at their homes have held sway unchallenged by poor Nigerians living in Nigeria and their rights have continually been violated by men of the force for no just cause. The culture of road blocks sprouted and metamorphosed from their original intent of safeguarding road users to extorting same and from there it gained flight into the dastardly act of ...

  “Claims that we Charge Riders #10,000 per Jacket are False, We Have No Problem With Our Riders” _ ANNEWATT Chair   AUCHI BLOGspot +2348069055018 auchiblog@gmail.com   Elamah Jimoh Shuaib, chairman of ANNEWATT, the umbrella body responsible for unions of riders in Edo North has stated emphatically stated that authorities of the body have no problems with its members. Responding to Thursday’s protest staged by some riders at Bata Shop in Auchi, the chairman stated that the few riders who embarked on that event are riders who are sponsored by persons who benefitted from the multiple tax administration   of the same riders before the coming of the Government of Governor Godwin Obaseki. He reported that before now Okada Riders were multi-taxed by various unions but the governor decided that there should be an umbrella body responsible for harmonizing the activities of the riders as well as ensuring a level of regulation through registration and enforcing of ...

    ENDSARS: Edo State Govt. Declares State of Emergency Over Surging Riots Amidst EndSARS Protesters ·          Soldiers Clash with Civilians in Auchi, 2Feared Dead ·          Management of Auchi Polytechnic Shut School Indefinitely AUCHI BLOGspot +2348069055018 auchiblog@gmail.com A 24hour curfew has been imposed by the Executive Governor of Edo state, Governor Godwin Obaseki indefinitely over protests that have taken destructive dimensions. This was announced on Monday in view of raging security concerns in the cause of endsars protests in Edo State capital city of Benin. Many cases of vandalism and arson have so far been reported with the most recent being the Breaking of Oko Prison and setting free of inmates by Protesters. The Secretary to the state Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq disclosed that though the citizens have rights and freedom of expression to the extent of making c...

    #ENDSARS: Edo North Protests Continues Despite Curfew and Death of a Protester   AUCHI BLOGspot +2348069055018 auchiblog@gmail.com   Edo North Youths have continued to protest despite the announcement of an imposed curfew by the state governor, H.E. Governor Godwin Obaseki. The youths who began protesting on Monday at Jattu Junction in Auchi to lend their voices to the ongoing calls for reforms all over the country were again seen at their protest venue on Tuesday demanding for an end to police brutality amongst others despite losing a member to death in the hands of men of the Nigerian Army who shot sporadically at angry unarmed protesters leaving many injured in the process. They demanded justice for the dead and called on government to ensure that the killer is brought to book while encouraging aggrieved members to desist from taking laws into their hands in the cause of the protest.    Speaking on the issue, a comrade identified simp...