Soldiers takeover Lagos streets to avert rallies,Kadunaprotesters defy labour
Newsdiaryonline  Mon Jan 16,2012

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Reports from Lagos indicate that  fierce -looking soldiers have taken over strategic positions  in the economic nerve centre of the country.

Eye witnesses told Newsdiaryonline that "soldiers carry out  stop and search operations and if you are caught with with any anti -subsidy pamphlet you are in trouble.”. “I can tell you that militarymen are the ones occupying the various places where protesters in Lagos had gathered in the anti fuel subsidy rallies”one eyewitness said.

Some Lagosians say FG's  decision to draft soldiers onto the streets reminds them of the dark days of military dictatorship.

Reports have however emerged  of a rally in Kaduna in defiance of   heavy security presence.The Kaduna rally addressed according to reports by former Governor Alhaji Balarabe Musa and Comrade Shehu Sani was equally in defiance of labour's directive urging Nigerians to sit at home.