The Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shetima has declared that Nigeria has lost over N300 billion naira to hunger protest which took place in August 2024.
The vice President stated this while handing over the minors earlier arraigned for participating in the August hunger protest to their respected state governors in Abuja on Tuesday.
He insisted that despite the economic sabotage caused by these minors during the protest President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shown his serious concern over the condition of these children mostly from the Northern Nigeria and ordered for the discontinuation of the charges filed against them at the Federal High Court Abuja.
He said the N300 billion lost incurred as a result of the August hunger protest involved both public and private sectors.
The Vice President also urged the state Governors where these minors came to find a lasting opportunity to engage these young children to abort the occurrence of their participation into similar incidents again.
Meanwhile, Kano Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has assured that the Kano state government will take custody of these children until when they were examined clinically and ensure that they are fit before they are handed over to their guardians.