Protesters Still Turn Up For #IstandwithNigeria Despite Cancellation

More than a hundred protesters still turned up for the #IstandwithNigeria rally despite the fact that the convener of the rally, singer 2Baba called it of, according to a BBC report.

Placards read: “Unemployed people are hungry and angry” and “There can’t be a set of rules for the poor and another set for the rich.”

The group, Enough is Enough, said it was protesting about a raft of issues including security, education, health, power and unemployment.

It was, perhaps, always going to be a struggle to muster a crowd on Monday morning when most people are heading into work.

But the lack of protesters should not mask the fact that there is real anger here over the government’s handling of the economy.

Jobs are hard to come by and high inflation is making the lives of those on the bottom rung of society even tougher.

Businesses and investors complain that the government’s handling of the currency exchange rate has made a bad situation even worse.

Perhaps, what’s extraordinary is that despite Nigeria’s enormous economic difficulties there have not been more protests.