A few hours before the commencement of the anti-government protest, the Lagos State Police Command said its anti-bomb squad had deactivated an improvised explosive device.
It was deactivated in the Ikeja
area of the state.
The Police Public Relations
Officer of the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the development.
He was, however, unable to give
details of the development at the time of filing this report.
Nigerian youths, irked by the
prevailing economic hardship in the country, scheduled a 10-day nationwide
protest to commence on Thursday, August 1. Security agencies, however, had
issued security alerts, urging the organisers of the protest to shelve the
plan.
When contacted about the
deactivation of the explosive device, Hundenyin simply said, “Yes, it happened
today.”
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