Some elderly women protested Half-Naked against Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike, for the continued detention of the Manager of Prodest Hotel, one of the hotels demolished in the state.
The hotel manager is currently being quarantined in one of the Isolation centres in Port Harcourt after being alleged to have tested positive for Coronavirus.
The women issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Rivers State Government to set free the manager of the demolished Prodest Hotel, Azoroh or they would protest totally naked, PM NEWS reports.
The women issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Rivers State Government to set free the manager of the demolished Prodest Hotel, Azoroh or they would protest totally naked.
The half-naked women, who marched across the streets of Zakpo in Bori, Khana local government of River State threatened that if Azoroh (who also an Ogoni) was not released within 24 hours, that is, May 27, they would protest naked on the streets of Bori, which was not only an abomination, but a curse in Africa tradition and culture.
The angry women alleged that Azoroh, who was recently declared to have contracted COVID-19 by the state government had been moved from Elekahia Isolation centre to Eleme Quarantine centre among other COVID-19 patients.
The State Government, through Paulinus Nsirim, the Commissioner for Information and Communications had on Sunday, May 23, announced that the state had recorded 27 new positive Coronavirus cases, among whom was the Manager of Prodest Hotel, Eleme.