"Police Are Shooting Tear Gas At Us": Protesting Nursing Mother Cries Out at Eagle Square, Abuja
- A nursing mother has accused operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command of shooting at protesters at Eagles Square in Abuja
- According to the nursing mother, she joined the protest because her husband was killed by bandits in Katsina state
- The widow said Nigerians are suffering and they cannot eat because there is economic hardship in the country
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FCT, Abuja - A nursing mother said she joined the hunger and hardship protest because her husband was killed by bandits in Katsina state.
The widow said she also joined the protesters at Eagle Square, Abuja because of the hardship in the country.
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She accused the operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command of shooting teargas at protesters, asking if the police operatives wanted to kill her baby.
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As reported by TheCable, she said people are suffering and cannot eat because of the economic hardship in the country.
“I came to protest the hardship in Nigeria and the police are shooting tear gas at us. Do they also want to kill my baby? People cannot eat. Things are hard.”
Legit.ng earlier reported that a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, urged the planned hardship protesters to reduce the protest to one day or a maximum of three days.
Adegboruwa accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government of sponsoring hooligans and thugs to disrupt the protests in many parts of Lagos state.
The prominent lawyer advised the #EndBadGovernance protesters to make known their demands to the federal government and give Tinubu's administration time to address them.
Protest: Police disperse youths attempting to break Kano
Legit.ng earlier reported that some youths attempted to break into a two-storey building housing Sadaraki Stores along Zoo Road in Kano state during hunger and hardship protests.
Operatives of the Kano state police command quickly moved in and dispersed the angry youths from gaining entrance into the store.
The angry youths, however, succeeded in destroying the windows of the building before the arrival of security operatives.
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