"Chevron allegedly orders security men to manhandle Delta protesters to quash protest in Warri", 28 June 2017

A combined team of soldiers and policemen deployed to Chevron Nigeria Limited Warri Office today allegedly manhandled and forcefully quashed a peaceful protest embarked upon by members of KOMBOT-Egbema/Gbaramatu Graduates Association and the National Association of Ilaje Graduates in Warri...The protesters it was gathered, were willing to meet with the company representatives to express their displeasure over Chevron’s failure to attend to the issue of prolonged training exercises for candidates from their communities, refusal to allow trainees from...programmes [to] convert to regular employment status...[T]he group has issued Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL one week ultimatum to tender public apology to their members and call for a high-powered meeting with their leaders or have its operations shut down...“While those taken from the national, at Agbami, have been converted to permanent staff, those taken from our communities are not converted yet, using them as cheap labour or what we call modern day slavery because should anything happen to any of them, Chevron cannot be held liable and this is the major means through which our people can be taken into Chevron, the programme was designed to take our people into Chevron, but the company is trying to change the goalpost in the middle of the game", [said protest leaders]...