NewsNigeriaPoliticsBreaking: Police Declares 24-Hour Curfew In Borno Over Protest

Following nationwide protests on #EndBadGovernance that became violent on Thursday morning in Borno State, Police have declared a 24-hour curfew in the State to forestall the breakdown of law and order.

Police spokesman ASP Nahum Daso in a statement said the curfew was with immediate effect.

 “Based on the security chaos in the State, the Command has declared a 24-hour curfew with immediate effect,” he said.

Earlier, many angry protesters, in their hundreds, have mounted roadblocks, preventing vehicular movement and breaking windscreens of private and commercial vehicles that insisted on passing.

The protesters were seen chanting anti-government songs, carrying placards with the inscriptions: such as “Ba ma yi”, “Tinubu must go”, “End the bad governance” and “There is hunger”.

Police officers fired teargas to disperse them and gunshots were also hard.

One of the protesters, who gave his name simply as Muhammad, said they would not be deterred by the teargas, or even gunshots while exercising their constitutional right to protest.

“We want the world to know the kind of injustice meted against us by the police. They shoot teargas at us while conducting our peaceful protest and that would not deter us,” he said.

At the time of filing this report, fighter jets were hovering in the sky as the protesters headed for the Government House to register their grievances to the state governor, Prof Babagana Umara Zulum.