Aisha Jibrin, 57, has been taken into custody by the Niger State Police Command for starting a violent demonstration on Monday in Minna, Minneapolis, in response to a price increase on food products.
The command produced a significant obstruction on the highway and prevented drivers, travelers, and other road users from getting access to attend to their legal business, according to a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, PRO, Wasiu Abiodun.
Recall that on Monday, a sizable gathering rallied to protest the hike in food prices, blocking both the Minna-Bida route and the Kpakungu roundabout.
He stated, “The Command dispatched police patrol teams headed by Operations DCP Shehu Umar Didango, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, to the scene right away, and the demonstrators purposefully refused to clear the road for public use after much coaxing from the Police.”
“The group chose to remain violent despite the presence of His Excellency, the Deputy Governor of Niger State, Com. Yakubu Garba, who also made himself available at the scene to address them.”
He did, however, reveal that the police used minimal force to drive away the demonstrators who had turned violent, hurling rocks, bottles, clubs, cutlasses, and other potentially harmful weapons at them. They also broke pieces of the Kpakungu Division roof and damaged police patrol cars.
“During this, the police arrested 22 other miscreants as well as the protest’s organizer, Aisha Jibrin, 30, Fatima Aliyu, 57, and Fatima Isyaku, 43, all of Soje ‘A’ of the Kpakungu area of Minna.”
A bench and a stick that were used as a barricade, three knives, a pair of scissors, a cutlass, a saw blade, an iron pipe, four additional sticks, two wraps of Indian hemp, and charms are among the items that were found from them.
Abiodun clarified that during her interrogation, the aforementioned Aisha asserted that she was unaware that her action—organizing more than a hundred ladies and miscreants to block the highway in anticipation of a violent protest—was illegal.
The PRO went on to say that Aisha had told Hassan, a local youth leader, of their intention to demonstrate, and that he had pledged to notify the police, but had failed to do so.
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