"The ordinary people are suffering, but this government doesn't care because they cannot feel the pulse of the ordinary people," Juwon Sanyaolu, leader of the Take it Back movement, told Al Jazeera from Abuja.
"Why will they keep listening and dancing to the tune of these foreign interests while undermining Nigerians? We don’t consider government officials as gods and we don’t exist to serve their greediness," Sanyaolu said.
"Organisers timed Tuesday's demonstrations to coincide with the country's 64th Independence Day celebrations, marking Nigeria's freedom from former colonial ruler Britain in 1960."
"Tagged #FearlessInOctober, the protests' demands, Sanyaolu said, were for the government to end hunger by discarding fiscal measures recommended by the World Bank that have led to higher fuel prices."
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