Standup9ja - Xenophobia: Youths attack MTN office in Abuja
Hundreds of youths yesterday vandalised MTN office in Abuja,
damaging phones, computers, vehicles and other office equipment.
The youths were protesting xenophobic attacks on Nigerians
in South Africa.
The protesters were later chased away by policemen who later
formed a human barricade around the office building, an MTN staff told Daily
Trust on phone.
The staff who pleaded anonymity told our reporter the
protesters smashed windows and door and made attempt to vandalise computers
before the police chased them away.
“It was a terrifying experience. They came in two long buses
and started damaging anything they saw”, the staff said.
An MTN spokesman Funso Aina, who confirmed the attack on the
telco’s Abuja office, said the company was already in touch with the Nigerian
authority on the attack.
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