Police disperses, beats, arrests protesting youths in Abuja.
About 50 youth gathered at the Unity Fountain Park in the central area of Abuja in the morning of February 27, 2014, Thursday, to express their outrage over the recent killing of students by Boko Haram in the North-East.
The youth were carrying placards and singing solidarity songs in what was as yet a peaceful demonstration, when the police descended on them.
The police confronted the youths, while beating some of the protesters, they used tear gas and riot dispersal techniques to chase them out of Unity Fountain, adjacent the Transcorp Hilton Hotel.
Godswill Okoronkwo one of the protesters told Daily Trust that the protesters came together through social media sites like Facebook, twitter and Black Berry Chat.
He said they were all outraged with the gruesome killing of innocent school children in Yobe state and decided to come together and demonstrate.
Another protester in defiance to the presence of police men stationed around the Unity Fountain displayed a placard with the message, “Bloody bread and butter of politics reason for continued insurgency.”
Fortunately, all the arrested protesters have been released soon. The fear of social media prevailed:
Source: Legit.ng
