(1 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lagos, Nigeria – 1 August 2024
1. Various of protesters and police
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daudu Durotimi, protester:
"We are not going to stop until every Nigerian can live comfortably in Nigeria. We are not going to stop until we in Nigeria, we Nigerians living in Nigeria, enjoy a similar life or a better life than even countries across the world who don’t have half of the resources that we have."
3. Various of police walking in front of protesters
4. Various of protesters chanting during the march
5. Crowds of police and protesters
STORYLINE:
Thousands of mostly young people poured onto the streets across Nigeria on Thursday as they protested against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
Carrying placards, bells and Nigeria’s green-and-white flag, protestors were met with heavy security presence on the streets of Lagos.
Nigeria’s public officials, frequently accused of corruption, are among the best paid in Africa, a stark contrast in a country that, despite being one of the continent’s top oil producers, also has some of the world’s poorest and hungriest people.
"We are not going to stop until every Nigerian can live comfortably in Nigeria", one protester told the Associated Press.
Roads were blocked in parts of the country by either placard-carrying protesters or armed security forces, who were deployed overnight after days of mobilization for protests against the government of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. Some groups also staged protests in support of the Nigerian leader.
Rights groups and activists had raised concerns about a possible clampdown on the protests. Comments in recent days suggest “a troubling readiness to stifle dissent, heightening fears of a violent crackdown,” the international rights group Human Rights Watch said.
Many businesses across the country were also shut on Thursday amid fears the protests could be a replay of the deadly 2020 demonstrations against police brutality in the West African nation — or a wave of violence similar to last month’s protests in Kenya, where a tax hike led to chaos in the capital, Nairobi.
Protesters chanted songs as they listed their demands, including the reinstatement of gas and electricity subsidies whose removal as part of the government’s audacious reforms to grow the economy has had a knock-on effect on the price of just about everything else.
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