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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has banned street demonstration in the nation’s capital, Abuja.

The ban is contained in a Thursday statement titled ‘COVID-19: FCT Security Committee Prohibits Street Demonstrations’ by Muhammad Bello, FCT Minister.

This is coming despite Markets, schools and other heavy gatherings operating across the Nigerian capital after President Buhari lifted restrictions on movement.

“Due to the dangers posed by COVID-19, all street demonstrations, protests and processions will not be allowed anywhere within the FCT,” it partly quoted Mr. Bello as saying.

Nigerians have been demonstrating since last week demanding the disbandment of the now abolished Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

Despite scrapping the brutal squad, protests continued nationwide with the people accusing the government of being insincere with regards to reforming the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).

The ban by the minister is unconstitutional, according to human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong.

"Only the president can invoke the Quarantine Act under Section 4," Mr Effiong said.

"While FCT is under president's control, its minister cannot stand as a surrogate to invoke Quarantine Act," the lawyer added.

Source: https://todaypoliticsng.com/fct-minister-citing-covid-19-bans-endsars-protest/

I smell revolution

There are some useless never do well discouraging protesters and encouraging armed thug. Except you are a politician or a child of a politician you are doing yourself. If you are a politician you go meet God. This generation is awake and propaganda won’t hold us. All of you mad people will die and we will prevail stupid people. The protesters are not even asking for anything other than rebrand our police. Who’s not affected? if we achieve this we can press for good governance, good minimum wage your coming generations will know peace even buhari needs this revolution because even the north needs help, daura needs help

like they care

Government needs to stop playing with those miscreants. Enough of this rubbish. Those protesting kids are jobless lazy youths. See their useless timetable for protesting.

Should your government had done the right thing, we won't be here

E get as we go fit come overdo this thing wey e no go make sense again o.

I knew these men do not have the intelligence to handle this protest.

They will only get it wrong by using force

even though he didn't ban them we will start aour own supporting police

Good, so anyone still protesting is a criminal and should be treated as such

It is obvious this people don't have advisers, let me correct, sensible advisers.

Good, so anyone still protesting is a criminal and should be treated as such.

anyone who is well versed in the law should help me answer this:
do governments actually have constitutional power to stop people from protesting?

He banned it, yet lawyers association blocked the gate of ministry of justice now as I'm speaking. And other protesters are hitting the street. All these are propaganda for media purpose

Good

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has banned street demonstration in the nation’s capital, Abuja.

Simply put: 'FCTA ban exercise of Human Right in Abuja'.

What a pity!

benuejosh:
E get as we go fit come overdo this thing wey e no go make sense again o.

coward, na the over doing be the target and the theme of the protest.. I know you’re typing from your mothers bed behind her back..

Covid kee him there!!

ContentedK:
coward, na the over doing be the target and the theme of the protest.. I know you’re typing from your mothers bed behind her back..

Dats too much na