The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), KAYODE EGBETOKUN, has announced that police and security agencies have identified and blocked sources of external funding for violent protests in Nigeria.

EGBETOKUN made this statement during a joint press briefing hosted by the Chief of Defence Staff, General CHRISTOPHER MUSA, at the Defence Headquarters.

According to the IGP, the police were careful in managing the crisis and did not deploy water cannons or rubber bullets.

The police chief hinted that the shooting of an innocent protester in Kubwa, Abuja, was not the work of police operatives. 

He also noted that the shooting might have been carried out by robbers or armed hoodlums.