NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO VISITS AREA OF ETHNIC CLASHES

Record ID: 976726

  • Title: NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO VISITS AREA OF ETHNIC CLASHES
  • Date: 25th March 2000
  • Summary: ILE IFE, OSUN STATE, NIGERIA (MARCH 25, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV BANNER DECLARING PRESIDENT OBASANJO WELCOME 0.04 2. CU POSTERS OF OBASANJO ON WALL 0.09 3. GV/MV POLICE ON PATROL IN BACK OF VEHICLE (2 SHOTS) 0.17 4. LV POLICEMAN BY SIDE OF ROAD 0.24 5. TRACK POLICEMEN IN FOREGROUND, WITH DAMAGED BUILDINGS BEHIND AS ALONG IN VEHICLE 0.31 6. TRACK DESTROYED AND BURNT BUILDINGS 0.39 7. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) VIVIAN EVIVIE, STUDENT: "My property has been burnt, where I stay was burnt, in fact all my life belongings have been burnt, my books, everything." 0.49 8. GVS/SCU: CHARRED REMAINS OF BUILDINGS (3 SHOTS) 1.05 9. MV BURNT SHOP SIGN ON GROUND 1.11 10. GV BURNT CHAPEL AS VEHICLES ALONG PAST IN FOREGROUND 1.16 11. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) ABIODUN OLAJUYIGBE (EYE WITNESS): "The situation has not been calm, the visit of the President to Ile Ife is what is giving us the little peace that we experience, for the past three - four days everybody has been indoors and nobody comes outside, no business nothing, even children cannot go to the school." 1.38 12. SLV CROWD GATHERED FOR ARRIVAL OF NIGERIAN PRESIDENT 1.44 13. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) CHIEF OLANIYAN ALAWODE, LEADER OF THE MODAKEKE MILITANT GROUP: "The situation is that we are expecting President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is scheduled to visit this area, to see things for himself and assess the situation. Eventually he is planning to set up a committee to look into the problem and then resolve it with a common solution." 2.06 14. SV/CU PEOPLE HOLDING BANNERS CALLING FOR END TO VIOLENCE (3 SHOTS) 2.21 15. VARIOUS POLICE ARRESTING DEMONSTRATORS 2.31 16. WV PROTESTORS SHOUTING AND JUMPING UP AND DOWN 2.36 17. VARIOUS HELICOPTER ALONG OVER CROWD 2.50 18. GV POLICE MOTORCADE DRIVING THROUGH TOWN / TRACK BACKVIEW MOTORCADE THRU CROWD (2 SHOTS) 3.11 19. TRACK CROWDS LINING ROUTE (SEEN FROM MOVING VEHICLE) / TV CROWD AS CONVOY ALONG (2 SHOTS) 3.24 20. GV INTERIOR OF PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO AND PARAMOUNT RULER OF IFE OBA OKUNADE SIJUADE IN MEETING ZOOM IN SCU OBASANJO 3.32 21. VARIOUS GVS MEETING IN PROGRESS & PEOPLE LISTENING (4 SHOTS) 3.57 22. SCU OBASANJO SPEAKING INTO MICROPHONE (NATURAL) 4.10 23. MV AUDIENCE LISTENING 4.17 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: ILE IFE, OSUN STATE, NIGERIA
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Reuters ID: LVA6MR4HMQO590JVFGF7LEMCWPBS
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