One protester has been shot by the police in Wuse, Abuja. The serene atmosphere and commercial activities of the area was brought to a halt today as commercial drivers took to the streets to protest incessant harassment and victimization at the hands of various security agencies. They specifically named the Police, Vehicle Inspection Officers, Abuja Environmental Task Force, Federal Road Safety Corps, and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.
One protester has been shot by the police in Wuse, Abuja. The serene atmosphere and commercial activities of the area was brought to a halt today as commercial drivers took to the streets to protest incessant harassment and victimization at the hands of various security agencies. They specifically named the Police, Vehicle Inspection Officers, Abuja Environmental Task Force, Federal Road Safety Corps, and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.
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In order to register their demands, the drivers barricaded all the roads leading into Wuse, thereby preventing both human and vehicular movement. They described the mobile court at Wuse Junction was uncalled for and unacceptable, and that the presence of security agencies at the local Wuse market made it difficult for them to carry out their legitimate business.
When the anti-riot police arrived at the scene, they began by firing sporadically into the air to disperse the rampaging drivers, but one of the officers shot a protester in the process.
This infuriated other protesters who put him their injured colleague into a wheel barrow and pushed him around chanting anti-government slogans. Also recently, traders and hawkers in the city staged a protest over the high handedness of Abuja Environmental Protection Board Task Force.
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