Two were shot in the head — one of them buried with the bullet — three others hit in the belly; at least six other persons, including a minor, sustained gunshot injuries.
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Protests were eventually held in many states, including Abuja, Borno, Kaduna, Kano and Niger, where killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions were recorded. President Tinubu addressed the nation on the fourth day of the protest, but his words could not persuade some protesters to leave the streets. The president also failed to condemn police excesses nor authorise an investigation into them. Although the protests have ended, the demands have not been met, with the protesters now vowing to begin another round of protests on 1 October.
After Mr Muhammadu’s death, his colleagues, who shared a small room, notified his family of the tragic news by phone. He was subsequently buried in Suleja. His hustling clothes and phone were the only things he left behind. The twin losses — in less than a month — have plunged Halimah into a depth of sorrow, leaving her overcome with uncontrollable tears.The grief of losing her first son gripped 37-year-old Aisha. Lost in thought, she sat on a worn couch with her left arm propped on the corrugated zinc sheet wall of their hut, built on the edge of a flood-prone canal in Hayi, Kaduna Road.
That day, Khalifa did not go to his mechanic workshop. As he usually did every morning, he went to greet his mother and seized the opportunity to inform her he would be joining the protest. The deceased, according to his father, had shouldered some responsibilities in the house, “making the burden less on me.”Apart from those that were killed, between the first and fifth days of the protests, security agents, including the police, fired shots that injured at least seven people, including a minor, an almajiri boy.
Ismail Dahiru, a scavenger, and Muhammadu Bashiru, a dry cleaner, were at work when some police officers stormed their space and fired shots at them. “There was no life lost,” Wasiu Abiodun, the Police Public Relations Officer for the Niger State Police Command, claimed in a statement dated 4 August.
When Mr Isah was shot, his brothers, led by Abdullahi, a grassroots politician, went to ‘Division A’ police station to make a formal complaint.
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