Residents of Kaduna State on Thursday shunned a nationwide hunger protest, going about their normal business instead.
Our correspondent, who monitored the development, reports that most areas in the Kaduna metropolis were peaceful and calm, with business activities ongoing and traders seen in their shops transacting business.
Areas visited as of Thursday morning, including Ungwan Sarki, Doka, Malali, and Tudun Wada, were peaceful with commuters freely moving from one location to another.
A resident of Sabon Tasha, Mukhtar Isa, a graduate of Political Science from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, told our correspondent, “There is no need to protest when the government is sincere with policies that have human value, but which may take time to mature. It is important Nigerians should be patient with the present administration, which is barely a year old. To start a protest now, to me, amounts to mischief and is self-serving,” he said.
When our correspondent visited a shop at Barnawa, the environment was calm, with traders in their open shops commending the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani, for promptly intervening in the planned protest by sharing palliatives with youth and women groups across the three senatorial districts of Kaduna State.
Drivers and motor park workers in Ung Muazzu, Kabala, and Ung Rimi also commended Governor Uba Sani for his intervention when he engaged various youth organizations and women groups, urging them to back out of the planned protest. According to them, the protest would only end in anarchy and destruction of property, and they were not ready for it.
Meanwhile, there were pockets of protesters, mostly underage, carrying placards with inscriptions like “we are hungry,” seen in areas like Lugard Hall roundabout, Rigassa, and Badiko.
It is recalled that Thursday, August 1st, had been declared a day of rage, depicting a massive protest against hunger under the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
