A reinforcement of troops from the Joint Task Force (JTF) was on Sunday deployed to Ekpan community in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State following fresh violence that led to the death of one person with several others sustaining injuries.
Armoured Personnel Carriers and soldiers were deployed in strategic places to contain the renewed violence barely 48 hours after an Asaba magistrate�s court granted bail to Chief Newton Agbofodoh.
Chief Agbofodoh was arrested along with several others in connection with the crisis that enveloped the Urhobo community sometime last year when youths protesting his release from an earlier detention clashed with his supporters.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that armed youths stormed the hotel where he was lodged after his release last Friday but that he escaped from being attacked.
Security sources disclosed that some youths who fled the area returned and stormed the hotel last Friday to celebrate the release of their mentor. He was later to use the occasion to hold a meeting on how to tackle the opposing youth in the community.
He said the presence of the youth who allegedly fled the area in the wake of the last crisis that forced the state government to impose curfew on the community heightened tension with the opposing youth invading the place to scuttle the said meeting and foil the planned attack by the loyalists of the released Chief Agbofodoh.
JTF�s Public Relations Officer, Major Omale Ochagwuba, confirmed the clash and assured that security operatives had restored sanity.
He said the youth capitalised on the withdrawal of soldiers from the community to cause trouble, but assured that soldiers had taken over the entire area, adding that �there is no cause for alarm.�