Sallau Kafi, chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC, Supporters Group, APC-SG, has called on the police and and state government of Bauchi, to thoroughly investigate and unravel the sponsors of hoodlums who allegedly hijacked last Tuesday’s protest staged by students of the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic,ATAP.
The protest later turned violent.
ATAP students on the 20th of July, 2022 took to the streets to protest the industrial action embarked on by the Joint Action Committee of the State-owned higher institutions.
Some students took over the Bauchi-Jos Expressway, where motorists were blocked from using the road.
Speaking in a statement made available in Bauchi, Kafi condemned the violence that resulted from the protest by students of the Polytechnic.
“Some group of hoodlums and political thugs took advantage of the protest and barricaded the Bauchi-Plateau Federal highway, attacking passersby and security personnel”
” The miscreants and hoodlums resorted to burning of tyres, smashing of peoples’ vehicles, damaging properties, snatching of mobile phones and looting some shops situated opposite the school before the arrival of police anti-riot squad to the scene who tried to appeal to the students’ leaders, but yielded no positive results” he said
The APC chieftain said that the protesting hoodlums threw stones at the the police team which made made them sustain serious injuries.
“We urge the security agencies to investigate the circumstances surrounding the protest. We also urge the law abiding citizens in the State to stay away from all forms of criminality and stop politicizing the matter, especially our party members.The APC who are taking the advantage of the protest and are attacking the government in the media,” he said.