DADU, Aug 20: A large number of growers of Johi Taluka held a protest demonstration in Dadu town on Wednesday to protest against the irrigation officials for the artificial shortage of water in the Johi barrage and 20 waterways originating from it.

They marched through the roads finally stopping in front of the press club where they held a demonstration for half an hour.

Talking to newsmen, Habibullah Leghari, Maula Bux Leghari and Ali Ahmed Leghari said that a water pump was installed at a cost of Rs40 million at the Main Nala Valley drain, near Kakar, for supplying water to the Johi Barrage but the pump worked for only four hours as it developed a fault.

They said that the irrigation officials were selling water to influential people.

They demanded that an inquiry be held regarding it.

DEMO: The residents of Union Council Faridabad of Mehar Taluka held a demonstration outside the district Nazim office, Dadu, on Wednesday to protest against the non-provision of relief packets to the rain-affected people and the delay in starting repair work of the flood protective bund near their villages.