NEXT reporter counted at least 16 bullet holes in the maze of private residences, shops and cars in Bundu-Ama. Initially, residents shouted at neighbours who spoke up, while others accused the press of complacence. But soon, a resident held up an empty bullet cartridge, another accepted to have his picture taken. They came out, each interviewee seeking out another; a neighbour, a colleague, daughter: all were victims. As reporters moved through the site, scantily-clad children pointed out the community's sad attraction; a wall which still sported a bullet casing,

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They lived in a vast shanty town, but the ramshackle community was built on valuable waterfront land coveted by the powerful. In their continuing protest against forcible removal bu the state government to make way for a new private development, the residents of this Port Harcourt slum are now paying for their resistance in blood.
Five people are declared missing and more feared dead, with at least another 11 people nursing gunshot injuries. Several others say they were clubbed, whipped and had their personal effects looted by law enforcement officials during a particularly bloody crackdown on Monday October 12. Police are reported to have downplayed the casualty rate.
Eyewitnesses say that officers of the police force and army initially drove through a crowd staging a peaceful protest to disperse it. The security officials later came back; shooting in the air and also directly at the people, before marching through the waterfront community to lash out at and beat the protesters for well over an hour. Israel Okorie as chanting anti-government slogans when he was shot in the back. He spoke to NEXT via telephone.
"We were there by 7:30am to 7:45am. We say the first two armoured tankers that came. When they came, we were telling them that please, they should not touch our place, they should tell the governor to leave us alone; our places are not for sale.
When were talking to those ones, we saw a number of army vehicles, one small armoured car in front, with another white Hilux at the back, filled with army (men). They were in a convoy, coming from Prison Road, wearing camouflage. The next thing, they just opened fire on us, they were just shooting our women. They drove to Dockyard where they parked the armoured cars and Hilux next to the first cars that came."
Mr. Okorie said that he ran to the nearby Warder Barracks. He said: "they shot for more than three to four hours." ,