Uproar As Police Fire Teargas At Armless Protesters
There was serious uproar on Tuesday when personnel of the Nigeria Police Force threw canisters of teargas at protesters at the National Assembly main entrance.
Trouble started when some protesters who besieged the National Assembly to express their grievances against the Senate’s approval of both electronic transmission and manual collation of election results tried to forcibly enter the building.
Following the incident, the protesters, in their hundreds, especially women who were scampering for safety, fell on one after the other, causing panic.
Consequently, two women, aged about 50 and 22 years, respectively, fainted as a result of the tear gas inhalation, while others sustained bruises.
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