DSS invites Zainab Ahmad Nasir, a new activist on the bloc, and she abandoned her colleagues in the struggle for a peaceful north
A young activist in Kano, Zainab Ahmad Nasir, has abandoned a protest she began after the Department of State Services (DSS) invited her for some questioning.
TheNiche reported that a protest against the inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to curtail the rising insecurity in the North earned Zainab Ahmed Nasir an arrest.
She and her colleagues had carried placards to protest against the carnage going on in the North and the almost helpless situation of the government in tackling the bandits who terrorize the people unrestrained.
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The DSS invited her last night, and after a few hours of grilling, she abandoned her colleagues in the protest on the ground that politicians would hijack it.
Among the people in the photographs with Zainab Ahmed Nasir during the protest, was a youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State, Aliyu Bello. It is likely that the DSS played on that information to make her renounce what she started.
She said on her Facebook: “I want to let people know that from today I’m dissociating myself from the protest that started today, I’m kindly advising my Kano people to stay away from tomorrow’s protest.
“I heard about the plans to hijack and cause chaos for some political interest. I advise us to stay at home for our SAFETY. I was invited for a friendly discussion by the DSS It is not about me or you rather the interest of the state,” she said.
The protest, a rare thing among northerners because of their supposed loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari, was triggered after the incident of December 5 where travellers heading to Lagos from Sokoto, were intercepted by bandits and burnt alive. The Sokoto State government said those killed were 23. Other accounts put the casualty count at 40.