Some youths who had predicted resistance from security operatives had vowed that the protest would go on that yesterday . But at press time there were no signs of the protesters in the areas.
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A Delta State-based activist, Comrade Israel Joe was arrested by soldiers on Friday at the venue of a protest organised against the economic hardship in the country. He was subsequently handed over to the police who are planning to charge him for terrorism, after accusing him of being behind a protest against hardship and high cost of living in the state. A group in the state had set aside Friday, February 23, to protest against the biting hardship and rising inflation in the country following President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies.