The counsel to the Federal Government in the ongoing case on the #EndBadGovernance protest, Rimazonte Ezekiel, has said that most of the 114 protesters arrested are adults who are married and not minors.
Counsel to the Federal Government said this against the backdrop of the collapse of some minors during their arraignment by the police on Friday.
No fewer than four of the protesters arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja collapsed, a development that drew the ire of Nigerians.
This has led to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), taking over the case.
Fagbemi, in a statement he personally signed on Friday, said the police must hand over the case file to him latest on Saturday (today).
But reacting on Friday after the court session, Ezekiel told newsmen that the impression that most of those arraigned were minors was false.
He said: “These boys that we brought to the court today are adults.
“Most of them are married men.
“None of them is a minor.
“Some of them are university graduates.
“The small kids you are seeing here today came with their parents to come and greet their loved ones.
“They are not even the real suspects standing trial in this case.
“These boys were arrested in Kaduna and Zaria.
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“Do you know how much it cost us to be at this level of democracy in this country?
“These young boys are trying to destabilise Nigeria using the Russian flags and other countries while calling on the military to remove our president.
“Is it fair?
“To even remove the state governors.
“If they don’t want democracy again, are we forcing them?
“Everybody is enjoying their fundamental human rights.
“Nobody is abusing their rights.
“Everything is moving on well in the country only for these boys, for no reason, to start protesting with the flags of Russia and other countries.”
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