For protesting during Buhari’s visit, eight people were detained in Katsina

Eight people have been detained by the Nigerian Police Force’s Katsina State Command for “creating a disturbance” during President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the north-western state.

During his two-day stay in the state, the president ordered a number of projects.

The President opened the Kofar Kaura underpass and two other projects, but the Katsina Police Command spokesman, Gambo Isah, said on Friday that the police had heard that some bad guys called “Kauraye” from Sabuwar Unguwa Quarters were fighting in the Kofar Kaura area and using the crowd to steal phones and other valuables.

According to Gambo, a police investigation showed that the naughty people had used kids to raise suspicion in the neighbourhood by hurling stones at police patrol teams sent to the area to apprehend the miscreants.

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The people who had been detained, he continued, were aiding the police in their inquiry.

The police, meanwhile, refuted claims that President Buhari was stoned and jeered while he was there.

Gambo made his statement on Friday in response to what he claimed were doctored videos that had been making the rounds online showing the Nigerian president being jeered by a throng on Thursday as he opened the Kofar Kaura Underpass Bridge in the state capital.

“The Command is therefore advising the public to disregard the publications and films as they are untrue, doctored, and deceptive,” he said.