Protests broke out in Katsina on Thursday as President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the Kofar Kaura Overhead Bridge project in the city.
Shortly after the President’s departure, local youths took to the streets, setting bonfires on the newly constructed road, chanting “Bamuyi, Bamuyi” (meaning “we are not interested”) and stoning security operatives and vehicles associated with the ruling APC party.
Mustapha Muhammad, an eyewitness said, “This act is improper and condemnable because it is uncalled for.”
Also, some of the residents also booed President Buhari along the IBB way within the Katsina metropolitan area when the convoy of the president was heading to the newly constructed Revenue House for inauguration.
However, the Police and other security operatives have dispersed the protesters with teargas and normalcy has returned to the areas as the president inaugurated all the projects billed for inauguration today, Thursday.
The projects inaugurated by the president include remodelled Katsina General Hospital, Kofar Kaura underpass, Revenue House, Katsina Water Supply Booster Station, Kofar Kwaya underpass, Metrology Institute of Nigeria, Katsina (Federal) and Darma Rice Mill (Private).
Buhari is in his home state on a two-day working visit.
He is also expected to inaugurate General Hospital, Musawa, GDSS Musawa, Gora-Makauraci-Malamawa road, rehabilitated and asphalted Sandamu-Baure-Babban-Mutum road and Gurjiya-Sandamu-Karkarku road tomorrow (Friday).Katsina is President Buhari’s state of origin and it is controlled by the ruling All Progressives Congress.
