August 1: Troublemakers warned as Police, Niger Govt differ over Suleja protest
The Niger Voice Police Direct has supplied that it may possibly well possibly possibly well no longer tolerate any act of violence in the verbalize all the map thru the planned nationwide protests.
The verbalize Commissioner of Police, CP Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamm, issued the warning in an announcement signed by the Public Relatives Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun.
The CP illustrious that the Direct is no longer oblivious that serene reveal is a appropriate, but it may possibly well possibly possibly well no longer accept violent reveal.
Then again, DAILY POST reviews that before the planned date, some youths on Monday took to the streets of Suleja alongside the Abuja-Kaduna boulevard to reveal the rising value of living in the country while chanting anti-authorities songs.
They wielded placards with inscriptions such as ‘Sufficient is Sufficient’, ‘Discontinuance Anti-Loads Insurance policies’, ‘We Are Not Slaves In Our Nation’, ‘Hardship Is Insufferable’, ‘Gasoline Subsidy Need to Be Lend a hand’, among others.
Then again, the Particular Adviser to the Niger Voice Governor on Print Media, Mrs Aisha Wakaso, described reviews of the reveal in the verbalize as false, while urging residents to continue their day to day activities with out peril
She illustrious that the Chairman of Suleja Local Executive, Ishaku Bawa Naibi, has confirmed that no reveal came about in his jurisdiction, hence the reviews are spurious.
Nevertheless the Police Direct, which confirmed the reveal in its disclose, said, “Some boys were sighted alongside Kaduna boulevard in Suleja in an strive to block the boulevard. The Jam Commander Suleja moved with his workforce to the scene and the boys were dispersed peacefully.”
The disclose also explained that to invent clear public safety, stable serious authorities infrastructures, warehouses and markets and maintenance of regulation and elaborate, the Direct has directed for wide deployment of Police personnel and operational resources in collaboration with sisters’ security agencies to dominate public places.
“Furthermore, in case of any demonstration staunch thru which no community of folk has advance out to advance or repeat the Direct of any arrangement to reveal, or gape for any security coverage for reveal, but the Direct will be completely on ground with other security agencies to guarantee such demonstration is no longer hijacked by miscreants who may possibly possibly possibly desire to use such avenue to motive a breach of public peace.
“The Police Direct shall originate Uncover of Drive all the map thru the verbalize and other proactive security pork-up as a crime prevention measure for public safety, and to no longer intimidate, harass or violate anybody’s rights excluding the outlaws/miscreants who may possibly possibly possibly need ulterior motives to motive public disorder, and these deployments can mercurial intervene to neutralize any possibility before, all the map thru and after the purported reveal.”
The Police Direct extra warned capacity miscreants to occupy a rethink, and entreated fogeys and guardians to warning their kids and wards in opposition to any act of violence, as such may possibly possibly possibly well be met with a stiffer security advance.
The disclose then entreated members of the final public to continue to be regulation-abiding voters, cooperate with security agencies and toddle about their appropriate companies with out peril of molestation, intimidation or harassment from any quarter.
