Women in Obunagha community in Yenagoa LGA of Bayelsa State who shut down the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Gbarain-Ubie gas plant during a protest yesterday said the action was to draw attention to the perennial power outage in the community.
Briefing newsmen on the protest, a community women leader, Madam Pereware Dadiowei, said they had been without electricity for one month despite several entreaties to SPDC to on the problem.
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