Police Kill 21 Hunger Protesters, Arrest 1,154 – CSO

Organised Civil Society of Nigeria says according to data obtained through its Civil Society Protest Monitoring Situation Room, no fewer than 21 persons have been killed since August 1 when the nationwide protests against hunger began. It also claimed 1,154 others were arrested by the police on the first day of the nationwide protests, popularly dubbed #EndBadGovernance. Head of the Coordinating Secretariat of the United Action Front of Civil Society, Olawale Okunniyi, in a statement on Friday, on behalf of the group, stated that 175 persons sustained injuries. Okunniyi stated…

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