{"id":82108,"date":"2021-06-12T13:18:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=82108"},"modified":"2021-06-12T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:18:16","slug":"police-tear-gas-june-12-protesters-in-abuja-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/police-tear-gas-june-12-protesters-in-abuja-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Police tear-gas June 12 protesters in Abuja, Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1702358667909152004\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Men of the Nigeria Police Force on Saturday morning thwarted a June 12 protest in the Gudu area of the Federal Capital Territory when they stormed the area and started firing teargas canisters, <a href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/pointblanknews.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623585754098000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDVB_9mmUMpZfsNRjo98zw9JR1jg\">pointblanknews.com<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The protest began around 08:30 am and was going on smoothly with the protesters, mostly youths, expressing their dissatisfaction with the state of the nation.The protesters, who chanted \u201cBuhari must go\u201d, \u201cSay no to injustice\u201d, amongst other solidarity phrases, took to their heels and scampered for safety when the security operatives started shooting.<\/p>\n<p>One of our correspondents, who was covering the protest and streaming it on Facebook Live, also ran for cover as the security operatives bombarded the demonstration ground.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Also, the men of the Lagos State Police Command on Saturday morning fired tear gas canisters at the protesters who gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Lagos, venue of the June 12 Democracy Day protest.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were demanding an end to bad governance when they were tear-gassed by the security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>Several digital flyers, widely circulated on social media on Friday, had publicised meeting points in Lagos, Gombe, Calabar (Cross River), Yola (Adamawa), Bauchi, Abeokuta (Ogun), Yenagoa (Bayelsa), Port Harcourt (Rivers), Ibadan (Oyo), Ilorin (Kwara), Enugu, Akure (Ondo), Yobe, and Zaria (Kaduna).<\/p>\n<p>One poster by #RevolutionNow read, \u201cJoin the June 12 protest. No more poverty, hunger and insecurity in Nigeria\u2026 Enough Is Enough! Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another poster for a protest in Kaiserslautern, Germany read, \u201cBuhari must go! Let\u2019s come together to say no to government funding terrorism: Boko Haram terrorism and banditry, one litre of petrol equals N165, bad roads, poor hospitals, kidnapping, economic recession, police brutality, disregard for the rule of law, poor health sector, poor education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar flyers targeted at protesters in New York (US), Kaduna State and the Federal Capital Territory listed the same points but added, \u201cN30,000 minimum wage, N13.5m senators\u2019 salary, Nigeria is over N30tn in debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\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>Men of the Nigeria Police Force on Saturday morning thwarted a June 12 protest in the Gudu area of the Federal Capital Territory when they stormed the area and started&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":82110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82108","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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