Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Two, Injure Five in Okomu Oil Palm

Benin City — Pandemonium broke out on Wednesday at Okomu Oil Palm Plc located at Udo community in Ovia South West Local government of Edo State, following the invasion of the palm oil company by unknown gunmen who killed two of the workers and injured many others

Reports had it that the gunmen suspected to be Ijaw youths invaded the oil palm plantation where about seven workers were working and rounded them up and thereafter shut them serially after which two of them died instantly.

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