Clampdown on RevolutionNow protesters, Edo crisis top political events last week
In a massive crackdown on #RevolutionNow protesters across Nigeria on Wednesday, security operatives arrested some protesters. Among them were Agba Jalingo and Olawale Bakare, who had in the past years been held against court orders. The SSS later released some of the detained protesters.
Also, to douse the tension over the suspicions around quest for Chinese loans, the Debt Management Office also said Chinese loans constitute “only 3.9 per cent of Nigeria’s public debt stock.” A national leader of the All Progressives Congress , Bola Tinubu, accused Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, of fuelling the crisis in the state assembly. He likened the governor to a dictator who has no regard for the rule of law.
In respect of the corruption scandal rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission , a Senate report said the agency paid scholarship grants to its top officials. It also alleged that the NDDC paid officials N85.6m to attend UK graduation ceremony during lockdown. Meanwhile, citing concerns of terrorism and kidnapping, the United States warned its citizens not to travel to Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Kano, Kaduna and others.
The presidency also denied the claim that repentant Boko members had been absorbed into the Nigerian military.
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