As Nigerians protested over hardship across the country, residents of Kogi State abandoned the national call and instead remained indoors.
The protest, which started peacefully in some states, escalated to a full-blown crisis in Borno, Kaduna, Benue, Cross Rivers, and Lagos States, with the hoodlums vandalising government properties and looting stores.
Before this day, some high-profile political figures such as Senators, members of the House of Representatives and ministers have fled the country for fear of being lynched by angry protesters.
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In Kogi state, the residents abandoned the protest for fear of being killed by some hoodlums sponsored by unknown people masquerading as security.
The hoodlums were said to be armed to the teeth and were ready to kill if anyone dared go to the street to protest.
Before now, the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC government in the state and the main opposition, the Social Democratic Party, SDP, were trading allegations of sponsoring protests against the federal government.
The SDP raised the alarm about an alleged clandestine move by the APC in the state to print the SDP face caps and t-shirts to be given to their members to cause mayhem in the state in the name of protest and pin it on them.
This was said in a press conference addressed by the party governorship candidate in the last poll, Murtala Ajaka.
However, the allegation was dismissed with a wave of hands by the state commissioner for information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo.
At the last count, not fewer than seven persons have been killed across the country from the protest by the security agencies who have been threatening to shoot anyone who dared protest against hunger in the country.
The protest has entered 6 hours now without stopping.
While Muslim protesters were at the mosque to observe the two clock prayers, their Christian fellows went to stay behind them to guard against attack from the government security forces in Abuja, Sokoto and Kaduna.
The protest is slated to last for ten days as the first leg, and if the federal government does not meet its demand, it extends the protest, which may pose more danger to the survival of the present government in the country.
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