{"id":76972,"date":"2025-10-20T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76972"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:59:41","slug":"freennamdikanu-aftermath-scavengers-pick-teargas-canisters-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/20\/freennamdikanu-aftermath-scavengers-pick-teargas-canisters-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"#FreeNnamdiKanu Aftermath: Scavengers Pick Teargas Canisters for Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By ACJ Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following Monday\u2019s #FreeNnamdiKanu protest in Abuja, scavengers were seen picking used teargas canisters around the Federal Ministry of Finance area to sell as scrap.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to some protest sites in the Central Area, the Abuja City Journal team interacted with one of the scavengers, who spoke anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted not knowing the reason for the protest but expressed happiness, saying the recovered canisters would help him earn a living for the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I see all these things, I just pick them. I don\u2019t know what is happening, but I\u2019m happy because I will get small money from them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of filing this report, protesters had relocated to the Apo area of Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ACJ Team Following Monday\u2019s #FreeNnamdiKanu protest in Abuja, scavengers were seen picking used teargas canisters around the Federal Ministry of Finance area to sell as scrap. During a visit to some protest sites in the Central Area, the Abuja City Journal team interacted with one of the scavengers, who spoke anonymously. He admitted not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76974,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76972\/revisions\/76974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}