‘Seven people, not 13 died in Nigeria’s protests,’ Police replies Amnesty Int’l

The Nigeria Police has dismissed a claim by Amnesty International on the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest in the country.
The rights watchdog in a statement on Friday said 13 people had been killed in the protest which started across the country on Thursday.
But the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said only seven persons had been killed in the protest.
He also faulted the Amnesty International claim that security personnel had deliberately employed tactics designed to kill while managing gatherings and used firearms as a tactical tool for protest management.
The spokesman insisted that the seven deaths recorded since the commencement of the protest were not a result of gunshots by security personnel.
Adejobi said: “In Borno, four individuals lost their lives and 34 others were severely injured in a terrorist attack by suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP elements that infiltrated the protest and detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
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“An incident involving an unregistered Honda Prelude car that ran into protesters, resulting in the deaths of two civilians was also recorded.
“Another incident was reported in Kebbi where a group of individuals mobilised to loot a shop and in the process, a local vigilante man shot and killed one of the looters.
“This brings the total number of deaths recorded since the commencement of the protest to seven and not 13 as claimed by Amnesty International.”
He said no other fatality was recorded since the commencement of the protest apart from the seven cases mentioned.
Adejobi, however, said cases of armed robbery, arson, mischief, looting of public institutions and private businesses, and destruction of both public and private property were recorded during the protest.
He said arrests were made concerning the criminal incidences with some recoveries made from the suspects, while the protest was going on.
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