BREAKING: Shi’ites defy police, hold Ashura procession in Wuse

BREAKING: Shi’ites defy police, hold Ashura procession in Wuse Nigerians TuesdayThoughts

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja

Participants including men, women, and children held the procession for a few kilometres from Berger Roundabout to Wuse, and hurriedly concluded the exercise to avoid a confrontation with security personnel. A member of the Academic Forum of the IMN, Abdullahi Musa, who said this in a statement, invited religious leaders, Civil Society Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, the international community, journalists and the public to monitor the conduct of the Ashura procession “in order to expose those that are so desperate to cause violence for a pittance.”

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