Kenneth Okonkwo, a chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), says President Bola Tinubu must apologise to the minors who were arraigned among #EndBadGovernance protesters.
Okonkwo spoke in an interview with Arise Television on
Tuesday.
The nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest lasted from August
1-10. Some protesters were arrested and arraigned in court earlier in the week.
A handful of the suspects arraigned were minors, and the
situation sparked outrage.
On Monday, the president directed Lateef Fagbemi,
attorney-general of the federation (AGF) and minister of justice, to withdraw the
charges against the minors.
On Tuesday, a federal high court in Abuja struck out the
suit against 119 persons, who allegedly participated in the protest.
The minors were released and hosted by Vice-President Kashim
Shettima at the State House.
Speaking on the situation, Okonkwo said the minors must be
compensated and described the charges
against them and the processes of their prosecution as wrong.
“The president has to apologise to those children and
compensate them adequately. It was very wrong. The charges were wrong,” the LP
chieftain said.
“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 apologising to them.”
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