Youths of Ogoni ethnic nationality in Rivers State have cancelled a planned protest billed for Tuesday, 1st December 2020 in Port Harcourt.
Ogoni youths had planned to stage the peaceful protest to demand justice for late Gospel Gbaraka who was shot by a police officer, Inspector James Nwaba at his place of work in Port Harcourt.
Convener of the protest march and President General of Ogoni Youth Federation (OYF), Comrade Legborsi Yamaabana who announced the cancellation in a statement on Monday said, has put on hold the planned protest which was scheduled to hold on Tuesday 1st December, 2020 in Port Harcourt because of a letter of disapproval from the State Commissioner of Police and intelligence report of allege plot to infiltrate the protest by suspected hoodlums to cause havoc.
The youth leader reasoned that it was needless and unwise loosing another youth while seeking justice for Gbaraka
The statement reads in part, “consequent to a letter we received from the Rivers State Commissioner of Police disapproving our request to embark on the said protest to seek justice for late Gospel Gbaraka as well as reports from our intelligence unit of plots to infiltrate the protesters with armed miscreants so as to incriminate the protesters and occasion a staged-managed gun battle with deployed troops leading to the killing of protesters. We have decided to put the street protest on hold for now pending police investigation”.
He added: “It would be foolish to loss another son of Ogoni why demanding justice for our slain Gospel Gbaraka”.
He urged other Ogoni youths and lovers of Justice who have been hitherto mobilized for the protest to return to base, as well as explore other channels of getting justice for our slain Gbaraka.
