Protests in Nigeria Over Captives Banned
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Version 0 of 1. The police in Abuja, the capital, said Monday that they had banned protests organized to demand that the government rescue more than 200 girls still held captive by Boko Haram militants. The protests have “degenerated” and are “now posing a serious security threat,” Abuja’s police commissioner, Joseph Mbu, said in a statement. The kidnapping crisis, now in its seventh week, has drawn attention to Nigeria’s failure to curb Boko Haram’s uprising. President Goodluck Jonathan accepted international help in the search for the kidnapped girls only after a wave of domestic and foreign protests. |