The Police, on Friday, dispersed protesters on the fashionable Berger Roundabout within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, once they observed that the protesters have been gathering of their numbers on the second day of the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests towards hardship and starvation.
The protesters, who have been converging on the rendezvous of their numbers, have been chanting solidarity songs, and the favored slongan ‘Finish unhealthy governance’ and ‘Hungry dey’ when the Policemen across the space went to inform them to depart the world.
Noticing that the protesters weren’t prepared to depart the world, they began firing teargas cannisters within the air to disperse them.
Journalists and protesters needed to run for security due to the teargas cannisters that have been fired by the Policemen immediately at them.
Among the operatives of the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) that have been across the space have been visibly indignant on the Policemen for firing the teargas cannisters, as a result of the protesters have been peacefully conducting themselves, with none type of provocation.
Nonetheless, the teargas ultimately dispersed the protesters and journalists, who gathered on the fashionable Berger bus cease.
LEADERSHIP recollects that an FCT Excessive Court docket had on Wednesday ordered and restricted the #EndBadGovernance protesters to the Mashood Abiola Nationwide Stadium as a venue of their protest however on getting there on Thursday, the FCT Police Command led by its Commissioner, CP Ben Igwe, disallowed them from gaining entry into the power, a growth that pressured a few of them to maneuver to the Eagle Sq. within the Central Space of Abuja.
