Ondo State Governor, Olusegun-Mimiko
Eye witness account, said the youth were to attend a welfare package ceremony organized by Hon. Raphael Nomiye, a member of House of representative representing Ilaje/Ese-Odo federal constituency.
Nomiye was elected as a member of the lower House on the paltform of Labour Party (LP) last year
The venue of the programme is Naval forward Operational Base (FOB) Igbokoda
The deceased, eye witness said on their arrival at the programme were prevented from gaining access to the venue of the programme on the ground that they were not members of the ruling LP in the area.
Another source said the youth had approached the organisers of the programme to complain about the exclusion of their names from the beneficiary list when a naval officer allege to be drunk, opened fire on them leaving six people dead on the spot
Fifteen others according to investigations also sustained various degrees of injuries in the process.
Those that sustained injuries were taken to Okitipupa Specialist Hospital while the remains of the deceased have been deposited at the hospital morgue
However, the death of the six people sparked-off heavy protest by the youth, who in return stormed the Naval base with the corpses of their colleagues to register their grievances
Soldiers were later drafted from Okitipupa Army barracks to put the situation under control
As at the time of filing this report many residence of the town have fled to neighbouring for the fear of reprisal attacks from both sides
Efforts to reach Hon. Nomiye on the issue proved abortive as all calls put across to his mobile line were not answered.
In a telephone interview with our correspondent the police spokesman in the state Aremu Adeniran said he had not been briefed of the incident.
culled from DAILYPOST
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