Following Tuesday’s protest against insecurity in the north, the Police has arrested the leader of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), Nastura Ashir Sharif.
Sharif who is the chairman, Board of Trustees of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) is currently being detained at the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja, Tribune Online reports.
In a terse statement issued to the Tribune Online and signed by the spokesman, Abdul-azeez Suleiman, CNG stated that Sharif was arrested immediately after the protest in Katsina on Tuesday.
Recall that on Tuesday, thousands of youths from all over the Northern states under the umbrella of CNG converged on Katsina to protest the incessant killings in the region by bandits.
The protest, it was gathered, was the first leg of protest organised by the group while the second leg is to take place simultaneously in the remaining 18 states in the North on Saturday, June 20, 2020.
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