Crisis is looming in Iyahmo Community in Etsako West local Government area of Edo State, following an attack on the staff of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), policemen and officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) by electricity consumers in the area, THISDAY has learnt.
THISDAY also gathered that the police have charged two youths of the community to court over the alleged attacks on its men and the staff of BEDC. Two of the police officers were said have to have been hospitalised with broken ankles, while one NSCDC personnel was also hospitalised.
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