The Struggle For Good Governance group today, Thursday, August 1, embarked on a peaceful protest in the Katsina metropolis as the majority of residents stayed indoors.
This is just as the police command made good its earlier threat to deploy “special units” to check possible breakdown of law and order during the planned protest.
Apparently intimidated by the large presence of security forces on the streets, commercial activities remained grounded, banks and offices were also under lock and key.
“We are hungry and we need security to be restored,” the Good Governance group proclaimed in a banner as its members marched from the Kofar Sauri T-Junction through to the New Katsina Government House, under the leadership of Comrade Habibu Ruma.
They displayed placards some of which read, “End Banditry Now,” “Economic Hardship is High,” “Reduce High Cost of Governance,” “Stop the Killings in the North.”
Another group led by Ambassador Umar Ahmed Jibrin started their protest march from the GRA Roundabout and also headed to the Government House.
Government officials shunned the groups, refusing to collect their list of demands to the Federal Government which include restoration of fuel subsidy, among others.
Jibrin told reporters that, “people are dying because of hunger and insecurity. We embarked on this protest for the government to address these challenges.
“We call on the Federal Government and the President to restore fuel subsidies and tackle the issue of naira devaluation.”
