Zulum is one of the governors in Northern Nigeria under whose administration protesters against the high cost of living were arrested. They were compelled to face trial and were sentenced to five years each in prison.
Their only offense was protesting against the rising cost of living.
They are still being held in prison. No one has stood up for them or visited them to show sympathy. Their families are the ones suffering the most. In one case, a protester's mother reportedly died from grief.
Although the Federal Government ordered the release of some protesters from other states, one of whom I personally campaigned for and helped secure release in Kano and Kaduna, these individuals remain incarcerated.
How then do you expect anyone in a state like Borno to come out and protest about insecurity, the abduction of schoolchildren in Askira Uba, or the rising cost of living?
You subject people to hardship, deny them security, and allow their relatives to be kidnapped. Then, when they come out to protest, you have them arrested and sent to prison.
Barr Nuhu Dantani