Nigerian police operatives have attacked several protesters in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, who had joined the #FearlessInOctober protest against hardships and poverty on Tuesday morning.
These police operatives were seen shooting teargas canisters and ammunition at the protesters who had staged a peaceful demonstration against the hardship of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Videos posted online had shown protesters sprinting for safety in the areas now believed to be Jabi and Utako environs of the FCT.
Consequently, in the photos seen of the protests, the protesters carried banners that read; “Bad Governance has ended the dreams of Nigerian youths, end it now”, “Enough is Enough – Revolution Now.”
Note that this development is coming after Comrade Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, urged Nigerians across the country to join him in the October 1st protest against hardships, privations, hunger, unemployment, insecurity, and poverty that the President Tinubu’s administration had unleashed on Nigerians.
Sowore, who made the entreaty for a demonstration in a post on Monday evening, had said that he could not be silent or indifferent, in the face of the sufferings and impoverishment that the Nigerian people were passing through, noting that he will be on the streets of Nigeria to join with other Nigerians in protesting the hardships.
According to him, protests or revolts were the only tool that common people had to voice their opposition to the anti-people policies of their government, and that it was a right that is encoded in everyone’s gene.
Finally, he reminded Nigerians that he had spent five of the last 6 years either in prison, detention, or confinement by the All Progressives Congresss-led government, under exaggerated treason charges that they were compelled to withdraw, although Sowore had vowed that he would not relent until “our point- by-point by demands are met”.
