Streets protests suspended in Kaduna

 

The Coalition of Civil Society, Labour and the Nigerian Bar Association in Kaduna State on Tuesday suspended street protests against the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government, asking residents of the state and protesters to remain at home and await further directives from labour.
This is coming on the second day of the nationwide strike and protests ordered by organised labour across the country, just as they accused the government of ordering security agents to shoot protesters.

The coalition said at a news conference at the Labour House, Kaduna that in view of the peculiar security situation in the state and the fact that they don’t want a repeat of what happened in Kano and Lagos to happen in the state, they decided to suspend street protests while asking residents to continue with the strike by remaining in their houses.

Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state said that the coalition will from time to time update the populace on development about the strike, pointing out that labour wants the strike which began peacefully to end peacefully.
He said, “We don’t want a breakdown of law and order in the state and that is why we decided to suspend street protests for now. We have meet at the level of NLC and other civil society groups and the NBA and have agreed to suspend street protests.

“We want to plead with the people that are protesting on the streets to go back to their houses. It is only the people that are saddled with the responsibility of monitoring the strike that are expected in the NLC secretariat daily.
“The NLC, TUC, NBA and civil society groups will be addressing press conferences at every point in time when the need arises. We want to cease this opportunity to plead with our people who are supporting this strike not to take the laws into their hands.”