Angry Kano Residents Storm Streets To Protest Hardship, Dangote Intervenes

By Daniel Maduka

Thousands of Kano residents on Thursday, February 8, 2024,  took to the streets to register their displeasure with the prevalent harsh economic situation in the country.

This is even as the acclaimed richest man on African Continent on Friday, February 9,  stormed the ancient city to be part of ways to assuage frayed nerves.

The protesters, in their thousands, marched through popular streets and areas such as Bachirawa, katsina road ,Rijiyar lemu, Kurna,  Fegge, and decried the excruciating economic situation with its attendant high costs of essential commodities .

They called on the authorities both at the State and Federal levels to take urgent measures to salvage the trend before things get out of hand.

Malam Usman Bello, spokesperson for the protesters, lamented that the high cost of living, occasioned by some difficult Government policies have visited untold hardship and suffering on the masses of kano.

Malam Bello said being that it was the  people that voted in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, they are equally calling on him to revisit some of his policies which have been found out to be anti people,adding that they can not continue to pretend that all is well, hence their resolve to embark on a peaceful protest march .

Alhaji Dangote, himself scion of kano, arrived the commercial hub of the North early afternoon on Friday and immediately proceeded on a parley with Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and other top Government functionaries, as well as stakeholders of the state .

Although as at the time of reporting. details of their meeting were not known,  but it is widely believed that the harsh economic situation and its possible back-lash on the ever volatile State, as well as means of calming frayed nerves will top the agenda.