Why we flogged protesting women in Delta —Army Unit Commander

 

Oworobo and his men of  the 4th Brigade Command, Benin-City, Edo State, had last Wednesday,  flogged and kicked hundreds of women protesting at Ovre-Eku (Iwevbo)  community over a land which had been in dispute for years between Edo  and Delta states.


  The source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Oworobo had  contacted the District Officer, DO, of Eku Police station, Mr. Andrew  Efejedia, in an attempt to exonerate himself and his men of any wrong  doing in the incident, where he claimed that he had no option than to  order his men to use minimal force to disperse the protesters who had  tried to disarm his men. 

 According to the source, Oworobo had asked the DO, “Don’t you know it is  a crime to carry a charm according to the Criminal Code of Nigeria?”  Meanwhile, Lt. Oworobo has also threatened to deal with the Warri  correspondents of The Authority and The Nation newspapers, Theophilus  Onojeghen and Bolaji Ogundele, both of whom had contacted him to know  what actually transpired between his men and the protesting women.  The offence of the journalists was their temerity to contact him for the  military’s side of the incident. 

 In separate reactions to the journalists, an angry Lt Oworobo had  described them as idiots and madmen, allegedly saying: “You’re an idiot.  You’re a mad­ man. Why are you calling me? So I should report to you  abi? Who are you to call me? If you ever call me in your life, I’ll deal  mercilessly with you.”