The family of 21-year-old Ahmad Yusuf Muhammad, one of the tailors accused of mass-production of the Russian flag in Kano, has weighed in on the matter.
Recall that the hunger protest in the north was characterised by protesters carrying Russian flags, leading to arrest of some of them including persons suspected to have sewn the Eastern European country’s flags.
One of the supposed tailors in police net, Mohammed, according to his family, has no knowledge of how to sew cloths.
This, the suspect’s brother, Nasiru Yusuf Muhammad, said in an interview with Daily Trust.
“He is my biological brother, he was arrested because they said he was the one sewing the Russian flag. I want to clarify that he was never a tailor, he had never been and doesn’t even know how to handle a sewing machine,” Nasiru told the publication.
“He is a used water sachet recycling dealer, we are all into it, he directly works under me, that’s our business. He was never a tailor. Even the sewing machine that was said to be his was not his own and was not picked in our house. It was in a neighbour’s house and the owner has since run away.
“The flag was not even in his custody. Ahmad had not participated in protest and did not raise any flag. We had cautioned him and he listened,” he added.
