From Molly Kilete, Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has warned against unlawful protest by any group to disrupt the relative peace in the city.
It says it would not helplessly watch any group under whatever guise jeopardize the peaceful in the FCT by blocking roads and denying people easy access to such roads.
The warning may not be unconnected with the announcement by the Bring Back Our Girls Group (BBOG), plans to embark on a peaceful protest from Tuesday to demand for the unconditional release of the remaining 113 kidnapped Chibok Girls by Boko Haram terrorists group in 2014.
Police public relations officer in charge of the FCT, police command Anjuri Mamzah, who gave the warning, said “the FCT Police Command has information that some persons have plans to stage unlawful protest with intent to block major roads in the Federal Capital Territory.”
Mamzah, in a statement while noting the police will continue to be professional and respect the rights of citizens advised aggrieved persons and groups to heed wise counsel and channel its complaints to the appropriate authority.
The BBOG had last week Thursday, which it said marked 1,200, days since the girls from Government Secondary School Chibok, were abducted from their hostel, announced its intention to hold peaceful protest beginning on Tuesday, August, 1, to demand for not just the release of the remaining 113, kidnapped Chibok, Girls, but also the kidnapped 6 Lagos schoolboys are have now been released and the women abducted on Borno-Adamawa road.
The group said the peaceful protest was part of its duty as a citizens’ movement to ensure that the federal government does not to keep its promises of releasing all the kidnapped girls alive.