The Joint Task Force, JTF, in Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, has detained the Delta State Chairman, Phase 2 ex-militants under the amnesty programme, Mr. Kingsley Muturu, over a planned peaceful protest in Bomadi,
the council headquarters, to press home the demand of the people for the restoration of power supply to the council.
Mr. Muturu, narrating his ordeal in the hands of the JTF in a statement in Ughelli, said Bomadi council had been under electricity blackout for over a year and half as a concerned Bomadian, he placed several calls to the council chairman, Chief Oluwole Karetimi, to ensure that power supply was restored to the area, since it was the council’s decision to pay electricity bills in the area.
He also noted that the people of the council would gladly accept to pay their bills individually if the council would agree to offset the light bill already owed the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.
He added that in his determination to fight for the people, he said he planned a peaceful protest to call on the council to put to an end to the pains and sufferings of the people, which information he passed to various security outfits including the police, DSS and the JTF commander in Bomadi district, Capt. Robert, briefing them on the planned protest.
Muturu narrated that in the course of informing Capt. Robert over the phone, he asked him to report to his office in person at Bomadi-Overside, where after interrogations he alleged that the commander told him he had no right to carry out the protest and in a bid to know why he had no constitutional right, that he was rough-handled and detained alongside four of his companions in JTF cell for over two hours, with his phones seized.
He said he was later transferred to Agbara-otor, Ughelli district of JTFr office, where he was further detained for two days like a common criminal before he was released.
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