Protest: Youths defy Edo govt directives on road blocks

Some protesting youths on Monday blocked the Temboga end of Upper Mission road in Ikpoba Okha and TV road in Oredo Local Government Areas respectively, disrupting human and vehicular movements in the localities.

DAILY POST reports that the youths who mounted roadblocks on the road also extorted motorists.

It was gathered that youths also barricaded Egba road junction in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area after the bypass along the Benin –Auchi road.

The blockade of the roads by the youths was in defiance to the Edo State Government’s order that roads should not be blocked.

The youths insisted that they would be on the road for 10 days before they would re-strategize for the next line of action against the government.

DAILY POST reported that one of the leaders of the protesters in Edo State, Agho Omobude, however, led his members on a peaceful protest along Ekehuan road.

As it was in the last four days, the protesters marched along the road without mounting any roadblocks.

DAILY POST recalls that Omobude and his group held a Church Service by Agho junction of the Ekehuan road on Sunday.

The protesters were armed with placards of different inscriptions such as “give us back our country, Nigerians are hungry.

Speaking with newsmen, Omobude Agho described President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday broadcast as hollow.

Agho said they are still in the street because the protest is slated to last for 10 days.

“It is a warning protest, ten days warning protest afterwards, the protest will go to the next level so we have only done four days and today is the fifth day and we must continue.

“Some government thugs apparently tried to infiltrate the protest so that they can discredit it. And a lot of people are being misled so we want to rekindle the spirit of Nigerians to wake up for their rights.

“They must come out and fight for it because if we don’t get it now, we will never get it again because this is the worst time in our life as Nigerians, ” he said.

He, however, opined that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not say anything in his Sunday broadcast, noting that Nigerians only heard his voice, saw his mouth moving, but nothing came out of it.

”If he made a speech we would have since relaxed but he rather came to insult the sensibilities of the majority of Nigerians, by now we all should be fully convinced that we are now in a clueless regime, completely clueless system.

“They have militarized everywhere, soldiers are everywhere that is why we went to start our protest from where they are. The soldiers are militarizing our democratic space”,he added.