Labour Party chieftain Kenneth Okonkwo has called on President Bola Tinubu to apologize to the minors who were detained among the #EndBadGovernance protesters. Okonkwo made this appeal during an interview with Arise Television on Tuesday.
The #EndBadGovernance protests, held nationwide from August 1-10, led to the arrests and court arraignments of several protesters, including minors, which sparked public outrage.
Following this, President Tinubu directed the Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, to withdraw charges against the minors. On Tuesday, the Federal High Court in Abuja struck out the case against 119 protest participants, leading to the release of the minors, who were later received by Vice-President Kashim Shettima at the State House.
Okonkwo criticized the charges and the handling of the minors, stating they were subjected to unjust treatment. He emphasized that an apology and adequate compensation are necessary.
“The president has to apologize to those children and compensate them adequately. It was very wrong. The charges were wrong. The process of detaining them was wrong. The process of arraigning them was wrong. They were just malnourished, maltreated, and mistreated in that whole process. The police should be apologizing to them,” he said.
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