{"id":2620,"date":"2022-04-14T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:20:58","slug":"plac-production-poverty-fuelling-human-rights-violations-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/plac-production-poverty-fuelling-human-rights-violations-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAC Production: Poverty Fuelling Human Rights Violations in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For Haruna Idris, a 21-year-old man who fled the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria\u2019s northeast for the relative safety of the capital, Abuja, the only way to make a living is to sell on the streets. Yet, while hawking windscreen wipers on the highways around Abuja\u2019s Area One district, he\u2019s keenly aware of the essence of maintaining vigilance for the sudden appearance of officials of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board\u2019s task force. Comprising policemen, members of the civil defence force and others who bear the appearance of thugs, their modus operandi is to swoop on hawkers, destroy their wares, beat and haul those they can grab into detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our daily\nreality and we\u2019re always on the lookout and ready to flee once the task force\npeople appear,\u201d Idris said in a recent interview. \u201cBut we\u2019re not always lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/37JWjuM\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/37JWjuM<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Haruna Idris, a 21-year-old man who fled the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria\u2019s northeast for the relative safety of the capital, Abuja, the only way to make a living is to sell on the streets. Yet, while hawking windscreen wipers on the highways around Abuja\u2019s Area One district, he\u2019s keenly aware of the essence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}