{"id":544,"date":"2024-08-06T08:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=544"},"modified":"2024-08-06T08:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:32:51","slug":"video-activists-vow-to-resist-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/video-activists-vow-to-resist-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) Activists Vow to Resist Police Brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Activists Vow to Resist Police Brutality\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDHM8kNmjpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The federal capital territory, Abuja was calm, yet officers of the Nigerian Police prevented protesters from having any breathing space on Day 5 of the #EndBadGovernmentProtests.<\/p>\n<p>At noon on Monday, the capital city was calm within the city Centre while the national stadium, the supposed venue of the protest, was agog with a few minutes of drama, but the police, in their show of power exercise, moved around, scaring protesters with their long and armoured vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>While that lasted, members of the protesting youths arrived at the stadium in a long coaster bus intending to mobilize and commence the fifth-day struggle. But that could not happen as the police, who were battle-ready, shot at them with tear gas canisters.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters in the bus choked as the driver made his way out to a safer place.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, they asked everyone to leave the arena or get brutalized.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the protesters condemned the action of the police saying it\u2019s against the fundamental human rights of the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>They called on the president to reverse among other things, the removal of the oil subsidy and increment on the electricity tariff.<\/p>\n<p>They also asked that the president allow the youths to protest as he\u2019s a product of protest.<\/p>\n<p>They also call for the removal of critical oil sector personnel who are suspected to be doing a racket with Nigeria&#8217;s commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>The Protesters vowed to strategize and resume protest for the remaining 5 days of the 10-day protest in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BLESSING OKERE, HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER<\/p>\n<p>MMA ODI, ALLIANCE FOR CREDIBLE ELECTION<\/p>\n<p>ENE OBI, COUNTRY DIRECTOR ACTION AID<\/p>\n<p>Source: Swifteradio.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The federal capital territory, Abuja was calm, yet officers of the Nigerian Police prevented protesters from having any breathing space on Day 5 of the #EndBadGovernmentProtests. At noon on Monday, the capital city was calm within the city Centre while the national stadium, the supposed venue of the protest, was agog with a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}