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Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy - Police Disperse Occupy Kano Protesters

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United in protest.

Kano — Nigerian Police in concert with members of a vigilante group last night applied maximum force to disperse thousands of protesters occupying Kano city centre.

The incident occurred around 1.30am Thursday morning, as substantial part of the multitude were asleep at the centre after a covenant was signed between the Muslims and their Christian brothers on right to worship.

Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the police fired several cannisters of teargas at the sleeping crowd before unleashing violence on the protesters.

The account had it that in the ensuing confusion, no fewer than 42 protesters sustained various degree of injury, while six were arrested and subsequently released on intervention by leaders of the protesters.

Vanguard learnt that the Coaster bus belonging to the BUK Students Union Government was vandalized in the unprovoked attack, while hundreds of motorcyles belonging to the tenants of the square was seized by the police.

The action of the police has already triggered tension in the city of over 9 million people as uneasy calm pervade the entire city.

Unconfirmed reports say that the police has promised to compensate the Students Union Government over their loss but effort to confirm this from leader of the Group, Comrade Muhammad Hamisu failed as he could not be reached on his cell phone.

On his part, the Police Public Relation officer in Kano, ASP Magaji Musa Majia failed to pick up his calls and as well respond to SMS.

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  • SUAUMOH@YAHOO.COM
    Jan 6 2012, 11:59

    No president could be trusted as far as Nigeria is concerned. People who suppose to lead Nigeria and Nigerians to the promise land are have no chances of getting there,this is because there are not connected or opportuned.Those who are leaders of Nigeria,get there through corruptions with the aim of embezzlements.The cause of all the problems we have in Nigeria is that the Government has nothing for the poor or programmes for the entires massess.A hungry man is a angry man they say! The so called boko haram recruits children without hopes to do these job of bombing,because the token giving to them,they constitute neusances putting the whole country in jeopadies.Fuel issue problem came in,adding salt upon injuries.Any group mounted the leaderships come with different ideologies.These ideas are not for the massess but for the benefits of the president and his line ups,No project is ever completed because completions of projects would not give room to enough money for embezzlements! Its a stategy,you know.Thats is one the reasons you see a lot of abandoned programmes.Do you ever asked yourself why politics is a do or die affairs? The political juggernauts would not learn until they are prepared to learn.Every projects made is a road map to embezzlements.when a local government families are driving good cars,building mansions and at the place some people realized that he got there with nothing;why shouldnt there be problems?Its like this is just the beggining,just watchout.

  • ras sideeq
    Jan 5 2012, 07:26

    MY BRETHREN AS WE ARE SEEING IN AFRICA A NEW DAY IS DAWN FIRST AND FOREMOST AFRICA SHOULD NOT REALISE A COPY CAT GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN FAILURE. AFRICA HAS A CHANCE TO DO EVERYTHING RIGHT MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE WE'VE BEEN DICTATED TO FOROVER SOME TIME WE'VE HAD LEADERS INSTALLED BY WESTERN GOVERNMENTS WE WERE USED AS SOME PRIVATE CASHCOW FOR WESTERN GOVERNMENTS LONGSIDE THEIR CORPORATIONS. TODAY AFRICA IS SAYING NO TO ALL THIS. AFRICA WILL NOT BE GOVERNED BY THE IMF AND THEIR POLICIES. AFRICANS WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY CORRUPTIVE PLANS TO PAY FOR EXTORTION LOANS BECAUSE FORMER GOVERNMENTS WERE ENCOURAGED TO ACCEPT THESE FINANCES TO SUSTAIN HIGH LIFESTYLES WHILE THE ENVIRONMENT SUFFERED THE PEOPLE SUFFERED EVEN MORE AND NO PROGRESS WAS MADE IN THE COUNTRY. TODAY WHAT IS A POOR EXCUSE IS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE THESE EXTRA BILLION NAIRA SO AS TO IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURE. THIS FLIMSY TAKE A PAY DECREASE. MOST POLITICIANSARE ALREADY VERY WEALTHY. THIS IS THE TIME FOR POLITICIANS IN AFRIOCA TO TAKE PAY CUTS THEY NEED TO SHOW THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ELECTING THEM THAT THEY THE PEOPLE COME FIRST OVER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. THEY MUST OVERSTAND THAT THEY ARE BEING ELECTED. PEOPLE ARE NOT VOTING FOR A KING. IT IS COMMONLY RTEALISED THRUOUT AFGRICA THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE KING. MOST PEOPLE ARE SUBJECT ONLY TO"SUPREME KING OF ALL KINGS LORD OF ALL LORDS CONQUOROR OF ALL CONQUOROR" THE ONE SOVEREIGN LORD AND ALMIGHTY GOD" "THE INDIVISBLE" AFRICANS WILL NOT SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO GOVERNMENTS WHOM ARE BEING ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE. AFRICA WILL NOT ALLOW THESE GOVERNMNETS TO SELL OUT THEI COUNTRY RE4FINANBCE THEIR COUNTRY FOR LOANS THAT BENEFIT ONLY THOSDE WHO ARE ELECTED LONGSDIE THEIR CRONIES THE PEOPLE WILL REJECT ALL GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE BEING GIVEN ORDWERS FROM ANY WESTERN INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING THE IMF.WHEN THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE ELECTED THEY GUARANTEDD THAT THEY WOULD LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE AND THEY WOULD GOVERN BY THE PEOPLES WILL. LET US NOT GET CONFUSED THE WEST SEEMS TO THINK THAT WHEN NIGERIANS SPEND TWO US DOLLARS A DAY THAT THEY ARE LIVING A MIDDLECLAS LIFE STYLE. THIS IS INDEED A FALACY . WHEN NIGERIANS ARE LIVING THE AND SPENDING TWENTY TO FORTY US A DAY THEN WE MAY ALLY OURSELVES TO BELEIEVE THAT WE HAVE TRULY ACCOMLISHED A MIDLECLASS ENTITLEMENT. TWO DOLLARS IN ANY MANS WORLD IS FOLLY AND FANATASY THIS IS STILL VERY POOR. EVERYONE WORLD WIDE CAN SEE THAT THIS FUEL SUBSIDY IS A BENEIFT TO THE POOR THIS IS A BONUS FOR THEM. WHAT THE WEST IS DOING IS BREAKING THE BACKS OF NIGERIANS WHO ARE MAKING PROGFRESS . THEY THE WEST IS SUFFERING THEY HAVE NO REAL MONEY AS THEY FOOL THE WORLD INTO BELIEVING THAT THEIR FANTASY PAER MONEY IS LEGITIMATE. WHATY I WANT PEOPLE IN AFRICA TO KNOW IS THAT FOR THOUSANDS I MEAN THOUSANDS OF YEARS GOLD HAS BENN THE STANDARD OF MONEY ON THE PLANET THIS HAS BEEN RAN ALONGSIDE PAPER BECAUSE IT WAS MORE EASILY USED AS TENDER HOWEVER THE GOLD WAS WHAT WAS BACKING THE PAPER. AFRICA HAS SURPLUS OF GOLD DIAMONDS OIL MINERALS WAY ABOVE SURPLUS. THE WEST HAS USED AFRICA TO INCREASE THEIR OWN WEALTH LONGSIDE USING THE PEOPLE. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TODAY THEIR GRAVY TRAIN HAS RUN AMUCK THEIR IS NO MORE OF THIS GREAT LEVERAGE THEY HAD OVER THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. THEY HAVE BEEN SO BUSY RIPPING OFF THE WORLD SCURRENCIES ENGAEING IN SO MUCH CONFLICT AND BLOOD LETTING THAT THEY MISEED OUT ON AFRICAS GREAT UPLIFTMENT. AFRICA IS RISING SO THEY ARE JEALOUS AND BAFFLED AT HOW FAR AFRICA HAS REACHED. THE FIRST THING THEY DID WAS TO GET RID OF A PANAFRICANIST AN EDUCATER WHOM WOULD NOT BE USED BY THEM. THEY COMMITTED AFRAUDULENT ELCTION AS WE CONTINUE TO SEE IN CONGO AND SOME AFRICAN COUNTRIES THEN INVADED THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF THE COUNTRY OVERETURNED WHAT THEY WANTED TO BE THEIR RESULT WE SAW THE DEMISE OF THE IVORY COAST. THEIR NEXT OBJECTIVE WAS THEN LIBYA THEY SENT IN SPECIAL FORCES STARTED ILLIMINATING SECURITY FORCES PROPED UP SOME YOUTHS TO START DEMONSTRATING THEN SHOT THE PROTESTORS AND BLAMED GADAFFI WHICH RESULTED IN HIS DEATH. THEIR PROBLEM WITH GADAFFI WAS THAT HE BECAME TOO AFRICAN MINDED . HE LIKE THE CHINESE WERE INVESTING HEAVILY IN AFRICA. HE BUILT UNIVERSITIES HE BUILT HOSPITALS ROADS ETC. THESE AREW THINGS THE WHITES COULD HAVE DONE AND SHOULD HAVE DONE OVER THEIR FIVE HUNDRE YEAR HOLD OVER THIS CONTIENENT. AFRICA WILL NOT RESUME THIS RELATIONSHIP. THEY ARE NOW COMMING BACK INTO AFRICA WITH THEIR EVANGELICAL RUBBISH WHICH SUPPORTS WHITE SUPEMACY ARACIST GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL THEY ALSO HAVE THE BIBLE MISREPRESENTED BECAUSEE THEY CAN NOT CHALLENGE THE OLD TESTAMENTAS TO ITS AUTHENTICALY BEING AFRICAN. WE MUST NOT START LOOKING AT DESTROYING OUR LOVE FOR ONE ANOPTHER BECAUSE THE TRICKS OF THE WEST. THESE PEOPLE ARE CONNIVERS THEY ARE CON ARTIST THEY ONLY SEEK WEALTH POWER AND WORLD DOMINATION. WE MUST ACCPET THAT AFRICA IS THEIRTARGET THEY WANT ITS WEALTHJ AND SO THEY NOW THEY COME WITH DIVISIVE MEANS. WE MUST ALWAYS REMEBER THAT THEIR MOST POINAGNT TACTIC IS DIVIDE AND CONQUOR. ONCE WE START TO DIVIDE AND BECOEM EMBROILED IN CONFLICT AMONGST OURSELVES THY WIL USE THIS OPPRTUNITY TO SELL WEAPONS PROVIDE SPECIALIST SERVISES WHICH IS ONLY BENEFICIAL TO THEMSELVES. WE MUST CONSTANTLY STAY VIGILANMT WE MUST NOT ALLOW THEM BACK INTO OU COUNTRIES WITH THE PEOPLE AWARE AND COGNISANT OF THEIR INTENTIONS. THIS NO JOKE IN THESE TIMES. WE CAN SEE THAT THEY ARE BREWING CONFLICT IN SOMALIA WITH DIFFERNT NATIONS BEING ALLED T ISRAEL . WHAT IS NEGATIVE ABOUT THIS IS THAT THRUOUT APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA ISRAEL WAS FERIND AND ALLY. WHENW ESEE THE CRUEL AND VINDICTIVE WICKED ATTROCITIES THAT THESE PEOPLE COMMIT AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS WE MUST REMEBER SLAVERY AND HOW CRUEL THAT WAS AND WE MUST NEEVER EVER CONSIDER THE INHUMANITY OF MANAS TOLERABLE. ANY ONE WHO IS INHUMANE IS NOT FREIND OF THE BLACKMAN. THE AFRICANS ARE "GOD LOVING AND FEARING"PEOPLE SOME MAYBE MISGUIDED IN THEIR APPROACH TO HOW IT IS THEY SEE"THER ALMIGHTY GOD" BUT THEY ARE LED BY EITHER THOSE WHO ARE CYNICAL OR THOSE WHOM ARE BLIND THEMSELVES. THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND. WHATEVR THE CIRCUMSTANCE WE MUST SHOW GREAT SERVICE BY EXPLAINING THAT WHOM WE SERVE IS SO "HOLY" "HE" IS WAY ABOVE THE EARTHS LOWLY AND CONTINUOUS REGRESSION . THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN IS FULL OF SIN MISERY DOOM AND GLOOM. THOSE WHOM HAVE BENN OUR WORLD TEACHERS HAVE FAILED MISERABLY AT THEIR POST. THEY CONTINUE TO GUIDE THE EARTH IN TURMOIL THEY CONTINUE TO SELL US ON THE IDEA THAT WE MUST CONTINEU TO KILL EACH OTHER WE MUST NOT HAVE LOYALTY TO OUR NATIONS WE MUST FIRST HAVE CONFLICT AND THE LOSS OF LIFE. THESE THINGS ARE NOT SO. THOSE OF WHOM APPRECIATED THE MESSAGE OF CHRIST MUST SEE THAT WHAT THE CHRISTIAN NATIONS ALONG SIDE THER ISRAELI NATION SUPPORTS IS CONTRADICTORY TO WHAT THE PRACTISE CHRIST TAUGHTAND THE SO CALLED CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THE SO CALLED CHOSEN OF THE "ALMIGHTY" KNOW NOT THE FIRTS THING OF TEACHINHS OF HUMILITY THE CODE OF ETHICS THE BONDS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHOM DO THEY REALY FOOLW ; THEY MY BROTHERS IF JESUS WAS HEER TODAY HE WOULD DISMISS THEM AS SINNERS AND THOSE IN THE GRIP OF SATN SITTING IN THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATN HIMSELF. WE MUST NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE TRICKED ANY FURTHER WE MUST STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT WILL BENIFIT THE PEOPLE IN THESE TIMES. SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT WANT TO REBUILD INFGRASTRUCTURE WHGICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE MNY MANY YEARS AGO THEY MUST FIND ALTERNATIVE MEASURES THEY MUST NOW CREEEP BEFORE THEY RUN FIRST AND FOREMOST THEY MUST INVEST INR EFINERIES THEN ALLOW FORE THEMSELVES THE COMMON SENSE OF SUPPLYING THEIR OWN MARKETS FIRST BEFORE THEY EXPORT. THEN THEY MUST STOP IMPORTING SO MUCH EXPENSIVE GOODS FROM THE WEST. THE PEOPLE WANTS TO SEE THE NATION GROW. SO THEY WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE CERTAIN IMPORTS SWACRIFICE THES E SO CALLED LUXURY GOODS LIKE TOBACO ALCOHOL THESE ARE EXPENSIVE. MAKE IT UNREAONABLE FOR NIGERIANS TO MANTAIN TH EHABIT SO THE FALL OF THE IMPOT OF THESE GOODS ARE LESSER AND LESSER. I AM SURE THAT THE ONE BILLION US YOU SPEND ON IMPORTING THESE KILLERS THE TOXINS COULD BE AVERTED FROT EH GOOD OF THE PEOPLE. THERE IS NO WAY THAT THE GOVERNMNET DOES NOT KNOW THAT ANY EXERCISED COMMING FROM THE WEST RIGHT NOW IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO THE AFRICANSD WELL BEING. THE WEST WANTS TO FIND AND MANTAIN STOOGES IN AFRICA. THE PEOPLE ARE THE EYES OF THE GOVERNMENT THEY ARE WATCHING VERY CLOSELY AS THE BANKING CENTER IS BEING INVADED BY THE WEST IN SEARCH OF MANTAINING EUROPE. IT IS IDEOLOGICALY SENSIBLE FOR AFRICA TO MANTAIN ITS PAN AFRICANIST VIEWS. IT IS NOT SENSIBLE TO GO AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA. THEIR WILL BE TURMOIL LOSS OF REVUNUE AND THE STEPS OF REPRESSION WILL HARDEN THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE AGINST TH OPOSSING GOVERNMENTS. WHAT WE NEED IN AFRICA IS EVERYTHING BENIFICIAL TO ITS PEOPLE. WE NEED TO SE MORE OF WHAT GADAFFI ESPISED THE FREEE HEALTYH CARE SYSTEM WHICH WAS UP TO WESTERN STANDARDS WE NEEED FREE EDUCATION THAT STARTS TEACHING OUR YOUNG FROM THE EARLY STAGES IN THE WEST CHILDREN DO NOT WORK ATT ALL THEY ARE LAWS THAT FORBIDS THIS WHY IS IT AS IN SLAVERY CHILDREN WERE FORCED TO WORK. WHAT WE SEE IS THE RESIDUE OF SLAVERY EXISTING ON THIS WEALTHY CONTIENENT. FIRST AND FOREMOST THE REVENUES THAT ARE EBING USED AFORM OF TAXATION ON THE POOR IS UNACCEPTABLE. IF THE GOVERNMENST WANTS WIPE OUT THE THEIVES AMONGST HIS PEERS HE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PUNISH THE PEOPLE FIRST AND FOREMOST EXPOSE THESE THEIVES AND THE PEOPLE WILL NOT RETURN THEM TO OFFICE AN DTHER SHOULD BE ATRIBUNAL HELD BY INDEPENDENT PEOPLE OF NON AFFILIATION TO OVERSEE THE TRANSPARENCY OFR THESE MONIES THAST ARE BEING DIVERTED. THE CHILDREN OF AFRICA NEEDS THEIR EDUCATION THE BAISC TEACHINGS OF MATHEMATICS REDAING WRITING SCIENCE THESE ARE WHAT IS UNIVERSAL IN ENSUREING THAT NATIONS REACH AND ATTAIN A HIGH STANDARD OF DEVELOPMENT. WHY SHOULD MOUR CHILDREN BE LESS PREPARED THAN THOSE IN WQESTERN NATIONS. THIS A CONTIENENT THAT HAS THE RESOURCES TO FULFIL THE PASSIONS OF THE PEOPLE. AT THIS GREAT TIME IN NIGERIAN HISTORY WHY NOW WHY ? THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS HE ONLY BONUS THEY RECIEVE FROM TEH OIUL REVUNE SO WHY ARE THEY BEING PENALISED . THIS IS THE SAME THING THE WEST IS DOING TO THEIR COUNTRIES THEYW ANT TO USE THE PEOPLE TO CORRECT THE THEIVES PLUNDERERES WHO HAS DECIMATED THE WORLDS ECONOMY . THIS IS WHY GADAFFI WAS EXECUTED THEY DID NOT LIKE HIS APPROACH TO AFRICA HAVINGS A STRONG AN FIRM MONETARY SYSTEM NOT ALLIGNED WITH THE WEST SO THEY CAN MANIPULATE ITS GROWH AND ITS DEMISE. AFRICANS HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD TO INCREASE THEIR LIFESTYLES SO TEH CAN ALOS COMFORT FROM LIVES GOODS. THE GOVERNMENT ALONE MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DISASTER OF MANY YEARS OF CORRUPTION AND THE CORRUPTION THAT EXIST NOW.WITHOUT THE PEOPLE THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT. YOU CAN NOT FORCE PEOPLE TO DO AND ACCEPT WHAT THEY FIND TO BE UNREASDONABLE AND FURHTERMORE THIS NOT THE WEST DICTATORSHIPS ARE UNACCEPTABLE AND IN SOME COUNTRIES IN AFRICA THERY WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. YOU MUST SEE SENSE THAT IF PEOPLE REFUSE TO WORK THE ECONOMY GOES INTO A TAIL SPIN. RIGHT NOW IN AFRICA THERE ARE TOO ,MANY UNEDUCATED TOO MANY UNEMPLOYED SO THIS NOT THE TIME FRO PROFITEERING THOSE DAYS ARE DONE. " SHOUDL AFRICA WANT TO SURPASS THE WEST AND SHOW THAT WE THOUGH USED AND ABUSED BY THEM ; ONCE WE SAW THE LIGHT OF EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE AND THE , THOUGH IT WAS THEIR FANTASY TO DIVIDE AND CONQUOR ! AFRICANS HAS DECIDED THAT THEIR WELL BEING COMES FIRST AND NO OTHER PEOPLE WILL INTEFERE IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN THIS CENTURY"

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