Reports:
"Gangs of thugs, believed to be All Progressives Congress, APC members, loyal to the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello today, violently disrupted protests by Lokoja branch of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, who poured into streets to register their anger against the state government’s failure to pay their five months salaries.
The thugs armed with dangerous weapons including machete and horsewhips swooped on the protesting teachers at the front of Lokoja LG secretariat, within the vicinity of the State APC secretariat, and inflicted serious injuries on some of them.
The hoodlums, according to their leaders, had described the action of the teachers as rebellion against Bello’s government.
The teachers, who were led by officials of Lokoja local government branch of the NUT had earlier in the morning gathered at the Lokoja LGA secretariat, where they commenced the protest that was designed to take them through major roads including Maigari palace, Kabawa Road and Township Stadium Road, to terminate at the gates of Government House."
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