A source, who is one of the Corps members working for INEC in
that region and who would not like to be named, told our
correspondent that villagers from the six villages in Oru-East Local
Government burnt buses and polling units. The villages include;
Awo-Ommama, Akuma, Amagu, Akatta, Amiri, Omuma. They also
attacked police officers and soldiers. The source said trouble
started in the towns when "some men came to the LG council from
Awo-Ommama, saying they heard that ten card readers and report
sheets were missing. They started disrupting the peace saying no
election." The fracas started since morning till around 2.30pm
when the DSS were deployed to restore order to the affected areas,
the insider told Pulse. The Corpers and other presiding officers
were escorted to their Polling Units afterwards, but the bus they
were transported in was smashed on their way and about four
Corpers were injured. "It's major. Several Corpers in the village
have had their phones smashed so that very few info/pictures
leaves the village," said the source. The police in the state could
not be reached for comment as at the time of filing this report.
However, it was gathered that some youths in the village said it in
November last year that they were already paid to disrupt the
March 28 election. There was a high rate of PVC robbery and
"forced selling." Awo-Ommama is the only stronghold of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) of the six villages. Most of the
destructions happened only in the APC stronghold.
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