Thugs on Tuesday took over the protest ground used during the August #EndBadGovernance protest at the Port Harcourt Pleasure Park in the Rivers State capital.
One of the organisers of the protest, in a WhatsApp conversation with our correspondent, said protesters were aware of the development and as such changed plans with the Rumuokwuta flyover being their new point of convergence. But another group of thugs were gathered at Rumuokwuta.
The protest grounds were earlier announced as the state’s convergence point for the “FearlessInOctober” demonstration against economic hardship in the country.
However, cane-wielding hoodlums took over the ground, saying they didn’t want any protest in Rivers state.
The thugs threatened they’d beat up any journalist who dared film them.
Similar protests are being held in other parts of the country like Lagos and Abuja as Nigeria celebrates its 64th Independence Day Anniversary.
The demonstrators want President Bola Tinubu’s administration to reserve petrol subsidy removal, and forex unification, twin policies that they claimed were responsible for soaring inflation and living costs in the country.
