{"id":76497,"date":"2020-10-22T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=76497"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T14:38:11","slug":"endsars-one-killed-police-station-burnt-schools-markets-banks-shutdown-in-anambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/endsars-one-killed-police-station-burnt-schools-markets-banks-shutdown-in-anambra\/","title":{"rendered":"#ENDSARS: One killed, police station burnt, schools, markets, banks shutdown in Anambra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">*Obiano declares 24-hour curfew<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Palpable fear gripped residents of the commercial city of Onitsha and environs of Anambra state on Thursday, prompting markets, schools, financial institutions and government establishments to shutdown as ENDSARS protesters took over the streets.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Gov. Willie Obiano in a timely intervention has imposed a 24 hour curfew in the state with effect\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">from 8pm<\/a>\u00a0until the rising tension is brought under control.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The governor also earmarked N200 million compensation for families and victims of disbanded SARS\/police brutality, upon recommendation by the Judicial Panel of Inquiry.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The early hours of the day protest had prompted residents of the area including school children and traders to stay doors as irate youths made bonefires in strategic positions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Students\/pupils who managed to get to their schools were turned back by their school authorities even as most of the teachers and students who envisaged the ugly development did not attend school.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The ever-busy Onitsha\/Enugu expressway from Onitsha to Ogbunike building material market was deserted and the market shutdown.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The popular Onitsha Main market was among the markets shutdown and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">the usual traffic grid-lock at the Niger Bridge subsided as security personnel causing the grid-lock were nowhere to be seen probably for fear of being attacked by the EndSARS protesters who stormed the area the previous day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Offices, shops, banks, courts, petrol filling stations, local government councils and motor parts were not left out in the shutdown.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bonefires were made with used tyres at Ogbonmanu, Nkpor junctions, Borromew round-about, Obodoukwu\/Owerri road junction, Ochanja round-about, Oguta road\/Modebe (Ekene junction), Bida\/Modebe junction, among others.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">An Okpoko resident who pleaded anonymity said &#8220;there were bonefires everywhere in Obodoukwu road the previous day and the youths vowed to set the Okpoko police station ablaze&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Today (yesterday) the police did not come out to extort money and make illegal arrest along the Obodoukwu\/Owerri road junction, they are inside the barracks for fear of being attacked by the EndSARS protesters&#8221; he stated further.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As at the time of filing this report, EndSARS protesters have besieged<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Awada layout and were chanting anti police songs as they headed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">towards the ABS radio Station while others were reported to be<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">heading to Okpoko police station.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There was tension in Nnewi also following the razing of the Central Police Station in the area by hoodlums, while the 3-3 Onitsha was touched today.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">One person was allegedly feared dead during the incident in Nnewi, which occurred\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">around 11pm on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The state governor had also anmounced all schools and markets in the state closed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Obiano said gatherings by groups and associations under any name or label\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">from 8pm<\/a>are banned. 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