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Nigerian authorities have arrested seven Polish citizens over their suspected roles in the brandishing of Russian flags in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, officials have said.
The spokesperson of the State Security Service (SSS), Peter Afunanya, confirmed the arrests of the Polish citizens to Reuters but said Polish citizens were not being targeted. He said the suspects were arrested as part of efforts to enforce security in Kano, where anti-government protests have gone violent and curfew has been imposed.
Reuters also quoted Stanislaw Gulinski, the Polish consul to Nigeria, as confirming the arrests at a meeting he and other diplomats had with Nigeria’s foreign minister, Yusuf Tuggar.
PREMIUM TIMES reported the display of Russian flags by some protesters in northern Nigerian cities such as Kano and Kaduna.
Some of the protesters who carried the flags told this newspaper that they did so to spite the Nigerian government, which they accuse of implementing policies that have worsened the economic situation for millions of citizens.
The government has described the display of foreign flags and the calls for military coup by some protesters as treason, saying such individuals would be arrested.
Scores of such protesters and the tailors who sewed the flags have been arrested.
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