By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
As the # FreeNnamdiKanu protesters tropped out to call for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, commuters in Abuja going to work were trapped and stranded in the protests as police divert vehicles to turn back.
Most Abuja residents were forced to return home due to a lack of transportation to their place of work, making many close down their businesses and many stay back from their workplace.
Commuters from places like Bwari, Garki, Nyanya, Mararaba, complained that lack of transportation had forced them to close down their businesses due to the protests and fear of police arrests.
At the Federal Secretariat, the atmosphere was scanty, and most offices closed.
A trader, Miss Rosaline, who spoke to Daybreak, lamented how she suffered before getting transport from Mararaba to Area 11, her place of business.
” l spent N 3, 500 instead of the usual N 1,600 because of lack of transportation.”
A reporter , who resides in Orozo, a suburb of Nyanya, recounting his ordeal today, said that
it was very difficult getting to his workplace at Garki, so he had to go by bike to his office.
Meanwhile, civil servants found around the Federal Secretariat said they have been locked out of their offices because of fear of infiltration by demonstrators and miscreants.
Another food vendor, “Madam Food”, said, “I have never suffered this kind of hardship today because of the protest that does not concern me.”
” Coming from City College this morning was hectic, I left my house to get to my place of business at 6:30 am but got to my shop at about 11 am,” she said.
Daybreak reports that
police fired tear gas on protesters who gathered chanting #FreeNnamdiKanuNow” in different parts of Abuja.
