Breaking News: Protesters Block Abuja Highway, Accuse Govt of Excessive Ceding of Land to Army

 

According to Premium Times, scores of people on Tuesday morning blocked the Zuba-Kaduna highway in Abuja to protest what they said was the excessive granting of land to the Army in the Nigerian capital.

 

The protesters carried placards and put a halt to movement of traffic on the busy highway.

 

They said they are original indigenes of Abuja and that their farmlands had been given to the army without adequate compensation.

 

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