{"id":106698,"date":"2023-08-02T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=106698"},"modified":"2023-08-02T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:10:30","slug":"protesters-break-down-national-assembly-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/protesters-break-down-national-assembly-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters break down National Assembly Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Apparently to register their grievances on the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government to the members of the National Assembly (NASS) protesters on Wednesday morning broke down the barricade at the outer entrance to NASS complex.<\/p>\n<p>This is even as the nationwide protests called by organised labour kicked off across the country on Wednesday with the President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade (Barrister) Joe Ajaero leading other trade unions to protest in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate past President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba who was among those who addressed protesters in Abuja berated successive governments for the failure to fix Nigeria\u2019s oil refineries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He queried why the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries have not been fixed in spite of the many promises made by the federal government, pointing out that Nigeria is the only oil producing country in the world that does not have a single functional refinery.He accused the political elites and their businessmen collaborators of stripping the country of her wealth, adding that the rich few are hold Nigeria by the throat.\u00a0 He said the rich are milking the poor dry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Pointblanknews.com reports that protesters break down the first gate of the National Assembly and made their way into the premises.<\/p>\n<p>They are currently inside the NASS premises as at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently to register their grievances on the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government to the members of the National Assembly (NASS) protesters on Wednesday morning broke down the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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