No fewer than 500 hundred women on Wednesday
staged a protest at Ovre-Eku, Iwevbo Community in
Delta state over a land which had allegedly been in
dispute for years between Edo and Delta states.
The women in their hundreds, wearing black clothing,
had converged at Eku community from where they
marched to the disputed land, carrying a coffin covered
in palm fronds to express their displeasure over alleged
sale of the land to an oil company.
During the protest at about 10:45a.m, Vanguard
gathered that about 10 soldiers accosted the women
and directed them to vacate the site.
The women had insisted on being addressed by a
representative of the company when the soldiers
unleashed mayhem on them, flogged them mercilessly
and used boots on them.
A senior military officer identified to be the Unit
Commander at the site, Lt. E. D Oworobo, who was
furious at their insistence, cocked his riffle, threatened
to shoot and then ordered his men to flog the women.
The soldiers chased the fleeing women into adjoining
bushes at the site.
The aged among the women, some in their 80s, who could not run, were trampled on by the soldiers and
others flogged with tree stems.
Meanwhile, the soldiers again went berserk at about 11:30a.m., invaded parts of Ovre-Eku community, destroyed nine motorcycles and 13 bicycles, while residents of the community fled, following the arrival of the soldiers in a white Toyota Hilux van. When contacted, the Unit Commander, Oworobo described the reporter as an “idiot and a madman.”
Source : http://dailypost.ng/2016/03/03/soldiers-flog-aged-women-during-protest-in-delta/