Youths from host communities to the Zungeru Hydro Electric Power Dam, in Niger State, have staged peaceful demonstration and blocked all access roads to the dam site in protest of incomplete compensation and not offering employment to indigenes by management of the construction firm handling the project eight years after commencement. It was learnt that the youths, under the umbrella of Gbadagun Youths Association, (GYS), issued a 72 hours ultimatum to the dam management on Thursday, while they blocked the roads leading to the project site and all quarry depots…
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