ABUJA / LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari called on security forces to act legally, national security adviser said Thursday, as the Lagos government sought to impose a curfew to involve anger over the crackdown on protesters against the police.
A place of fire sounded and smoke from at least two places of fire in the ad capital’s thriving Ikoyi district sounded on Thursday, witnesses said. Lagos component.
Violence in Lagos, Africa’s largest city, has intensified since Wednesday when teams of young men and armed policemen clashed in some neighborhoods following a shooting in Lekki district on Tuesday night.
Human rights organization Amnesty International said infantrymen and police killed at least 12 protesters in Lekki and Alausa, some other district of Lagos. The army denied infantrymen at the site of the shooting, where others had accumulated defying curfew.
Buhari will face the country at an exhibition on Thursday night.
National security adviser Babagana Monguno, speaking to reporters in the capital Abuja after a meeting with Buhari, said the president had ordered all security agencies to operate within “the limits of legality” and “do nothing to make the stage worse. “
“The president is very involved in this progression and does not need a scenario in which everything collapses and leads to anarchy, anarchy and others who take the law into their own hands,” Monguno said.
Monguno said Buhari will “propose some solutions” in the coming hours.
In addition to the pockets of tension in Lagos, where witnesses reported seeing young men, some armed with machetes, walking in parts of Lagos, several southern states imposed curfews to repair order.
The riots have a political crisis for Buhari, a former army leader who came here to force the polls in 2015 and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Some protesters said they feared returning to the dark days of military rule.
A spokesman for Lagos State said the chimney in Ikoyi’s criminal was low and that there were armed officers at the site, but did not say how he started or commented on the shooting reports.
The video posted online and in local media showed a fireplace at Circle Mall on the Lekki-Epe Expressway.
(Additional reports via Alexis Akwagyiram, Nneka Chile and Angela Ukomadu in Lagos and Felix Onuah in Abuja; written through Alexis Akwagyiram; edited through Kevin Liffey, Tomasz Janowski and Andrew Heavens)
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