Nigeria In One Minute
Security operatives stop #BBOG from entering Aso Villa
Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), advocacy movement protesters, were denied access to the Presidential Villa on Monday by Security operatives.
As part of its strategic 14-day line-up of activities to demand President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to speed up action on efforts to rescue the 218 Chibok school girls still in the captivity of the Boko Haram terrorists, the BBOG declared it will carry out a protest march to Aso Vila on Monday.
However, the security operatives involving Nigeria Police Force, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), as well as the Department of State Services (DSS), barred them entrance into the Presidential Villa.
Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, jointly led the protesters while the police detachment is led by CSP Chuks Obasi.
The refusal by the security to allow them entrance to their destination, it was learnt, resulted in Ezekwesili and CSP Obasi engaging in shouting match as the officer insisted that the protesters would not cross the human barricade put together by the security operatives.
“Who is the officer in charge of this command should stop it. The problem is that we still have our members on the highway. For many years, we have been advocating, we have never engaged in anarchy,” Ezekwesili had said, asking the CSP to stop pointing his fingers at her while addressing her.
Obasi in reply said, “Well, I have my mandate and my mandate is to ensure that a protest match does not assume a violent dimension.”
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...