A Public affairs analyst, Dickson Iroegbu, has frowned at Nigeria police handling of protesters in the country.
Featuring on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST on Monday, Iroegbu said Nigeria would be rid off insecurity if the police tackled it the say they confronted protesters.
He was reacting to the police handling of the Free Nnamdi Kanu’s protest, which took place in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on Monday.
The police allegedly fired tear-gas and live ammunition on the protesters. However, the police denied the claims.
“First of all, I commend my brother, Sowore. I was born seven years after the civil war and for the first time I felt loved as an Igbo man by another Nigerian.
“Sincerely, today again being that the protest was peaceful as declared by the convener of this protest and it was indeed peaceful but go around Abuja and see for yourselves if this was how the Nigerian police tackled insecurity in Nigeria the way they tackled protesters, we won’t have insecurity
“They released not just tear gas but live bullets at peaceful protesters. It is unfortunate, and it can’t continue this way,” he said.
DAILY POST reports that human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, on Monday organized a protest in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, demanding the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.