Nigeria: Three Killed in Ogoniland Over Alleged Construction of Army Barracks

21 June 2011

Port Harcourt — Three persons were killed in Zor-Sogho community, Ogoniland, in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State over an alleged misinformation about the construction of a military barracks in the area.

Vanguard, however, gathered that the Rivers State Government had planned an agricultural project for the earmarked land, but the owners of the farmland were not informed about the real project.

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