Nigeria Protest Group Asks for Bitcoin Donations After Regulators Block Bank Account
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Nigeria Protest Group Asks for Bitcoin Donations After Regulators Block Bank Account

THELOGICALINDIAN - A Nigerian beef accumulation declared Feminist Coalition is allurement wellwishers to accomplish donations via bitcoin afterwards authorities reportedly blocked the organizations coffer annual Feminist Coalition is one of the abounding groups spearheading protests adjoin declared badge atrocity by a Nigerian badge assemblage the Special AntiRobbery Squad SARS

Before the barricade of the coffer account, Feminist Coalition says it had acclimated donations aloft through the annual to armamentarium 90 protests beyond the country. By closing the coffer account, authorities are attempting to asphyxiate a movement whose success has brought the spotlight on crimes committed by aegis forces.

An advertisement on Sunday, October 11, 2020, by the Director-General of the Nigerian badge that the SARS would be disbanded, has acutely bootless to allay protesters. One beef supporter, who did not ambition to be identified, told news.Bitcoin.com the bearings on the arena charcoal tense. She said letters of atrocity and killings by the aforementioned assemblage are continuing.

Meanwhile, in a column on Twitter, the Feminist Coalition apprenticed Nigerians to accord via bitcoin back two of its donation channels were now blocked. The column said:

Flutterwave, a Nigeria payments gateway, which kickstarted the action to accession funds to pay for medical bills of those afflicted in the protests, appeared to accept caved in to burden from the government. Flutterwave’s bottomless accommodation to abutting the Feminist Coalition’s donation articulation is corroborated by reports that aggregation admiral were afresh summoned by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

By allurement for bitcoin donations, Feminist Coalition is assured funds for bankrolling the protests will abide to breeze as Nigerians are already accustomed with cryptocurrencies. Nigeria is already Africa’s better cryptocurrency bazaar and abounding in the country use agenda assets like bitcoin and Dash to accomplish payments.

The protests, which are fronted by Nigeria’s tech-savvy youth, seek an end to atrocity and bribery aural the country’s badge force. In a statement, the adolescence say they “also appetite a cerebral appraisal & retraining (by an absolute body) of all disbanded SARS admiral afore they are redeployed.”

Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey tweeted in abutment of the Feminist Coalition on October 14. In his tweet, Dorsey urges his followers to “donate via bitcoin to advice #EndSARS.”

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