Twenty-seven (27) people were injured in the infraction that took place in Okpanam on Saturday April 2, 2011. Those injured sustained different degrees of injury and are receiving treatment in various hospitals in the State Capital Territory.
Those who were arrested by the police in connection with the crisis were released yesterday evening, on the intervention of well meaning community leaders like Major Azum Asoya and Mr. Patrick Ukah, we learnt. They were first arrested and taken to Asaba but were transfered to Akwukwu Igbo when it was discovered that the youths were still threatening to unleash mayhem on the police in Asaba. After a lot of travelling and shuttling between Okpanam and Asaba, the youths were released and charged to be of good behaviour or risk rearrest.
Meanwhile other damages to the town from this crisis include the young man whose name is not yet known who was shot in the leg and parts of the police post which was damaged during the protest over the alleged arrest of the masquerade. The leg that was shot, we can reveal will require longer hospitalization and the cost of treatment is estimated to run into hundreds of thousands of naira.
For now, relative peace has been restored but the government needs to step up surveillance on the youths as they have been involved in too many communal clashes of recent and have constantly seen the poorly secured police post as the object of their attack when ever they are arrested.
Those who were arrested by the police in connection with the crisis were released yesterday evening, on the intervention of well meaning community leaders like Major Azum Asoya and Mr. Patrick Ukah, we learnt. They were first arrested and taken to Asaba but were transfered to Akwukwu Igbo when it was discovered that the youths were still threatening to unleash mayhem on the police in Asaba. After a lot of travelling and shuttling between Okpanam and Asaba, the youths were released and charged to be of good behaviour or risk rearrest.
Meanwhile other damages to the town from this crisis include the young man whose name is not yet known who was shot in the leg and parts of the police post which was damaged during the protest over the alleged arrest of the masquerade. The leg that was shot, we can reveal will require longer hospitalization and the cost of treatment is estimated to run into hundreds of thousands of naira.
For now, relative peace has been restored but the government needs to step up surveillance on the youths as they have been involved in too many communal clashes of recent and have constantly seen the poorly secured police post as the object of their attack when ever they are arrested.
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