Police in Kano State have allegedly arrested officials of the Nigerian Patriotic Front Movement including the National President of the group, Abdulmajid Yakubu Daudu
A source told our reporter on Tuesday that Dauda and four other members of the NPFM were arrested after a police invitation Monday afternoon.
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“The leaders of the NPFM were last seen leaving their office around 2:30 p.m. to attend a scheduled meeting with the Kano State Commissioner of Police at the Bompai Headquarters.
“By 7:42 p.m., Comrade Abdulmajid and his colleagues had not returned, raising concerns about their safety. Attempts to contact them have been unsuccessful, and their whereabouts remain unknown.
“They were said to have been taken to Police Headquarters in Abuja after their arrest,” the source alleged.
“Family members, colleagues, and supporters have expressed growing alarm as all efforts to locate them have so far proved abortive,” the source who pleaded for anonymity said.
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Recall that the Nigeria Patriotic Front Movement (NPFM), had recently declared October 1, 2024 as National Protest Day for National Survival.
The National President of the group, Abdulmajid Yakubu Daudu, made the disclosure in a statement, a copy of which was made available to our reporter on Thursday last week.
Daudu and his colleagues on Sunday, September 29, 2024 had during a press conference announced the commencement of a nationwide protest, code named National Survival Day, scheduled for October 1, 2024.
They said the protest was organized to voice grievances over the skyrocketing cost of living and what the group described as “endemic bad governance” in Nigeria.
Among the key demands presented by NPFM included the reduction of fuel pump prices, which the group claims are being overpriced, a halt to food inflation, which has worsened the economic plight of ordinary Nigerians and an end to excessive government expenditure at the highest levels of leadership.
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Others are the fight against grand corruption and persistent insecurity, a call for the re-nationalization of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited and electricity distribution companies, returning these critical sectors to government control.
Effort to contact the Public Relations Officer of Kano State Police Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna failed as he refused to pick the several phone calls from our reporter.
