Police Arrest 25 Suspects Over Hunger Protest

The Niger State Police Command on Wednesday apprehended 25 persons for participating in a protest on Monday against hunger and high cost of living in Minna.

SP Wasiu Abiodun, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO revealed that a woman identified as Aisha Jibrin was the mind behind the protest, and that she had been arrested with 24 other suspects.

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Recall that some women and youths in their numbers had on Monday took to the street and blocked the Kpagungu axis of Minna-Bida Road in the Niger State capital city, protesting against hunger and high cost of living.

The women, carrying a placard with the inscription “No food, we are dying of hunger”, demanded a better condition of living and reduction in cost of living for the citizenry.

They accused political office-holders of insensitivity to their plight as they lamented inability to feed even once in a day.

The protest against the hard economy and rising cost of foodstuff had caused traffic gridlock on the ever-busy Minna-Bida Road, which is a link road to the South-West part of the country from the North-Central.

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