Read How Angry Protesters Stoned Oshiomhole’s Aides

Governor Adams Oshiomhole

Patrick Obahiagbon, the chief of staff to the Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday, November 9, has objects hauled at him by angry protesters who were protesting against what they called multiple taxation and introduction of land use charges.

The protesters insisted that the governor must address them in person to listen to their grievances; Leadership reports.

They have staged a peaceful protest along major streets which was aimed to drive home their opposition to the implementation of Land User Charges, multiple taxation and increment of tuition fees of tertiary institution.

Security operatives were on ground to prevent breakdown of law and order and to ensure that the protest was not hijacked by miscreants.

The angry protesters carried various placards with these inscriptions: “No to Impunity, No to Reckless Spending of Tax Payers Money, No to arbitrary increase of school fess and No to sub-standard educational system.’

Obiahiagbon who was on ground to receive the protesters on behalf the governor was shouted at by the angry youth while others threw objects at him calling for the governor to address him.

Rev Olu Martin, a social commentator and human rights activist while fielding questions from newsmen said that they had to embark on the protest due to the hardship suffered by the people over alleged double taxation and the introduction of Land User Charges.

Martin said: “We have used every avenue to tell the governor, when we voted him into office in November 2008, there were promissory notes that made thousands of youths support him and by the definition of democracy by Abraham Lincoln, it was apt then.

“At the beginning, we saw some attempt by the governor to ameliorate the plight of the people. In the past when the governor was going on inspection of projects, people will abandon their wares without even locking their shops. Nobody remembers now how you came in but how you left. It appears the government has turned it ears against the people; all our cries and lamentation have been met with propanganda by government and all we hear is that they are being sponsored.