3rd August 2024, NewsOrient, News, Law And Society

As the 10 days nationwide Hunger Protest enters it’s third day today, the Federal Government of Nigeria has lamented the burning of Kano Technology Hub, describing the technology park as “a vital component of it’s Renewed Hope Agenda.”

It would be recalled that hoodlums, on August 1, 2024, the first day of the nationwide Hunger Protest, looted and set ablaze the technology hub in Kano.

NewsOrient reports that this was part of the violence that has overtaken the #EndBadGovernance protest in the northern commercial centre of Nigeria and some other parts of Nigeria.

In it’s reaction to the development, the Federal Government of Nigeria condemned the burning of the hub formally called Nigeria Communication Commission Industrial Park in Kano.

Minister of Communications, Bosun Tijani, said the facility would have been launched next week.

“Sad to learn that our Digital Innovation Park in Kano, slated for launch next week to support our technical talent accelerator (3MTT), has been set ablaze and looted by protesters,” Tijani wrote on X.

According to him, “the facility was intended to support the Technical Talent Accelerator programme and host the Buildathon Holiday Maker programme for secondary school students.”

He added that”the 3MTT initiative is a vital component of the Renewed Hope agenda, focusing on developing Nigeria’s technical talent pipeline to drive its digital economy and establish the country as a hub for talent export.”

NewsOrient reports that the 10 days Hunger protest was planned to be a peaceful march across Nigeria to tell Nigerian leadership the depth of hunger in the oil-rich country.

But following reports of Security Operatives’ continued confrontation with protesters, reports of their careless release of live bullets against some protesters and innocent citizens, reports of deaths and arrests of protesters and others and what some protesting youths call “retaliation actions,” it can be said that violence may have finally taken over as hoodlums infiltrate the ranks to destabilize the #EndBadGovernance Protest.

~ NewsOrient