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Commercial activities were again shut down in Owerri yesterday, as more people joined the protest against the continued demolition of buildings by the state government.  The protest march, which was started Wednesday, by scores of artisans from the Orji Mechanic Village in Owerri North local government area, attracted more aggrieved people yesterday.  At the Eke Ukwu Owerri Market, scores of angry women were seen spotting black blouses and uniformed wrappers, protesting the planned demolition of the ancestral market.  Some of the women lamented that Governor Rochas Okorocha was stretching his anger against Owerri people too far.  “There is no doubt that the Governor is dragging his hatred against Owerri people too far. It was under his regime that our late royal father, Eze Emmanuel Njemanze, was suspended for no just cause. Government never withdrew that suspension until he died,” an angry woman said.  Continuing, the woman said that Owerri indigenes ...

F ormer  Ebonyi State governor, Chief Martins Elechi, yesterday on the second day of his questioning in Abuja, faced more than eight hours of rigorous grilling in the hands of  operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged laundering of state funds. The former governor arrived the EFCC headquarters at 10am and faced his interrogators until 4pm when he was asked to go and return on a date next week. A source at the commission confirmed to Vanguard that the politician might be charged to court based on the evidence adduced by his interrogators and those earlier gathered from some top officials who served under his government. The questioning of the governor had to do with a number of deals said to have been carried out during his tenure for which concerned natives of the state petitioned the anti-graft agency and demanded for probe. Among the issues for which he was summoned were the alleged theft of millions of Naira in the asphalt plant ...