The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the town suffered the most grievous attacks and destructions during the last nationwide #EndSARS protests, with property worth millions of naira either burnt or damaged.
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The likes of Emefiele and other highly placed Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari, hailed the youths for exercising their fundamental rights to engage in peaceful protest. But the same Nigerians, including the law-abiding youths, also rose to condemn acts of violence and brigandage introduced in the protest by a few highly vicious persons. The introduction of violence, whether by omission or commission, took so much virtue from the protest and tarred it with a veneer of destruction.
Abdulwaheed Odunuga, the Chairman of the Agboyi-Ketu nine-man committee, told NAN on Sunday in Lagos that the committee had so far visited Food City, HS Filling Station, Sweet Sensation, Adisa Akintoye Street, Golden Garage and Demurin Street, among other locations in the Ketu area.
The Commissioner of Police, Kano Command, CP Abu Sani gave the commendation at a one-day youth, peace and security summit organized by the Nigerian Youth Parliament in collaboration with Kano Youth Coalition for Advocacy and Development on Saturday in Kano.
The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
The request, granted by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, was filed by the CBN on October 20.
The group also commended the state government for promptly lifting movement restriction placed on Enugu which was the epicenter of the crisis in the state.
They particularly appealed for the immediate repair of those facilities related to the maintenance of law and order, and the administration of justice such as police stations, court buildings and forensic laboratory in the state.
Ugwuanyi made the appeal when he visited the Enugu State Police Command to commiserate with the force over the loss of lives, injuries sustained and destruction of property during the #EndSARS protests hijacked by hoodlums.
The SMBLF took the decision in Abuja on Wednesday following developments in the polity that it described as “some urgent business of national importance”.
They particularly appealed for the immediate repair of those facilities related to the maintenance of law and order, and the administration of justice such as police stations, court buildings and forensic laboratory in the state.
AbdulRasaq made this call in Ilorin on Wednesday during the 2020 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kwara council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
The lawyers spoke in a letter dated October 30, 2020 and signed by its Chairman, Yemi Akangbe, and Branch Vice Chairman/Chairman, Human Rights Committee, Okey Ilofulunwa.
They spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in separate interviews in Lagos on Tuesday on trending of fake news in the social media, especially during the recent #EndSARS protests in some parts of the country.
The President of the NIPR, Mallam Mukhtar Sirajo, said this in Abuja on Monday when the leadership of the institute paid a courtesy visit on the Acting Director General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba.
But essentially what we are now witnessing is best described as the “silence of the graveyard.” It is at best “a temporary reprieve”. The embers of the youth revolution that resulted in death, arson, wanton destruction and expansive alienation, are still smouldering.
This was revealed by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, on a live television programme on Monday.
Obaseki, who gave the assurance when he paid a solidarity visit to the police command in the state, also assured that government would buy new vehicles for the smooth operations of the personnel.
The buildings, alongside Okitipupa LGA Secretariat, Okitipupa Oil Palm Company and others were burnt on October 22, 2020, by hoodlums who hijacked the #EndSARS protests against police brutality.
This was contained in a statement by the state commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso on Saturday night.