Four people were reported killed yesterday
by the police in Eket Local Government Area
of Akwa Ibom.
Following the incidence, about 100 youths
protested the killing and eventually dumped
the bodies of two of the victims in front of
the police station along Eket Oron Road.
An indigene of the area, who pleaded for
anonymity, said that two other person shot
by the police were rushed to the hospital,
but died on the way.
The aggrieved youths disrupted activities in
some parts of Eket. The protest caused
traffic gridlock.
Shops were forced to close as the aggrieved
youths, with cutlasses and other weapons in
their hands, matched to the police station.
However, Akwa Ibom State Police Public
Relation Officer (PPRO), Mr. Etim Dickson,
denied that the victims were killed by the
police.
Dickson said that more security operatives
had been deployed to calm the situation.