Security operatives at the Bauchi Government House gate have wrestled with a leader of the Initiative for the Liberalisation of Physically Challenged People on the first day of hunger protests in the state.
In a trending video on social media platforms, security operatives securing the Bauchi Government House were sighted wrestling with one Hamza Waziri, a person living with disability, in his wheelchair.
Following the incident, our correspondent interviewed the victim who stated that he was in the street of the government house alongside other physically challenged persons exercising their constitutional right of peaceful demonstration when they were attacked by the security.
Hamza Waziri explained, “I decided to organise this protest to show my displeasure with the current economic situation of the country.
“In the process, I was doing a live video so one of the police came to me and said that I had filmed him and they were trying to grab the phone from me. And they were hustling me to grab the phone from my hand and that is how they kept brutalizing me. They gave me a couple of punches as you can see from the video.”
Waziri maintained “So basically I was very peaceful. There were not more than ten of us but I was the only one actually standing in front of the Government House just to raise our placards that said ‘Employment should be for all”, “Everybody should be allowed to be employed’, ‘Inclusive Society’.
“So that was what our placards were carrying. So that is what basically transpired between us and the securities.”
Reacting to the development in a press release issued by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the governor of the state, Mukhtar Gidado, read “Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has ordered a thorough investigation into the incident involving a person with a disability and security personnel at the government house.
