#EndSARS: Protesters Plan To Block Major Roads Of Abuja, Lagos

#EndSARS activists have unfolded plans to scale up the campaign to force the federal government to meet their demands by blocking critical road arteries in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Lagos.

The protesters, in a tweet, said today, they would block three of the FCT’s most strategic highways which includes the Kubwa- Zuba Expressway, the Abuja International Airport Road and the Abuja-Keffi Road.

The threat came on the heels of an allegation by the federal government that hoodlums and people with ulterior motives have hijacked the ongoing #EndSARS campaign to destabilise the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The protesters, in a series of tweets, said the FCT roads would be barricaded from 6 am today.

To make real their threat, some of them planned to pass the night at the Central Business District near the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to ease their movements for the demonstration.

They have also vowed to shut down the apex bank tomorrow by preventing workers from gaining access to the building.

The demonstrations in Abuja have been intensified in spite of the ban by the FCT Administration Security Committee on protests in the city.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, while featuring in a radio programme at the weekend, wondered why the protest is still going on despite the fact that the federal government had met some of the campaigners’ demands.

He warned that the federal government could not allow the disruption to social and economic activities to persist.

He spoke just as government officials stepped up efforts to de-escalate the tension generated by the protest that has disrupted socio-economic activities.