A chieftain of the Labour Party, LP, Kenneth Okonkwo, has urged President Bola Tinubu to apologise to the minors who were arraigned among #EndBadGovernance protesters.
Okonkwo made this statement in an interview with Arise Television on Tuesday.
DAILY POST reports that the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest lasted from August 1-10 and some protesters were arrested and arraigned in court earlier in the week.
It was gathered that a handful of the suspects arraigned were minors, and the situation sparked outrage.
President Tinubu on Monday directed the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi to withdraw the charges against the minors.
Also on Tuesday, a Federal High Court in Abuja struck out the suit against 119 persons, who allegedly participated in the protest.
The minors were thereafter released and hosted by Vice-President Kashim Shettima at the State House.
Speaking on the development, 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 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,” he said.
