Commissioner Joseph Mbu
said the proliferation of such protests "is now posing a serious
security threat" to those living around, and driving through,
demonstration sites in the capital city of Abuja.
"I cannot fold my hands and watch this lawlessness," he said in a statement Monday.
"Information reaching us
is that too soon dangerous elements will join the groups under the guise
of protest and detonate explosive(s) aimed at embarrassing the
government. Accordingly protests on the Chibok Girls is hereby banned
with immediate effect," the commissioner continued.
More than 200 schoolgirls
were kidnapped in northern Nigeria in April by Boko Haram, in an act
that drew international condemnation.
The terror group abducted
an estimated 276 girls on April 14 from a boarding school in Chibok.
Dozens escaped, but more than 200 girls are still missing.
Nigerians and others have
accused their government of not acting swiftly or efficiently enough to
protect the girls seized in the dead of night.
Boko Haram translates as
"Western education is a sin" in the Hausa language. The militant group
says its aim is to impose a stricter enforcement of Sharia law across
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, which is split between a
majority Muslim north and a mostly Christian south.
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