The Inspector General of Police, Dr. Kayode Egbetokun, has said that the Force did not arrest minors during the #EndBadGovernance protest but those who committed crime.
Egbetokun, who spoke on Monday, said he would not make elaborate comments on the issue after President Bola Tinubu’s intervention.
Speaking at a workshop in Abuja, he said those arrested during the #EndBadGovernance protest were criminals who looted and vandalised public and private properties as the police provided adequate security for the protesters
On the arrested minors, he said they were not arrested for participating in the protest but for looting and destruction of public infrastructure.
According to him: “I don’t want to make any categorical statement on this issue again after the intervention of Mr. President.
“I just want to thank Mr. President for his fatherly intervention to give those children pardon.
“But I want to use this opportunity to correct an impression.
“The impression that those minors were arrested for participating in the EndBadGovernance protest.
“That is a wrong narrative.
“It is not true.
“The police did not arrest anybody who participated in the End Bad Governance protest.
“We arrested criminals who took advantage of the protest to cause destruction to public infrastructure, to destroy private businesses, and to commit arson.
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“Those ones cannot be regarded as protesters.
“The police did not arrest any protester.
“But we arrested the criminals.
“So it’s a wrong narrative.
“It is mischievous for anybody to push the narrative that those 76 suspects who were arraigned in court were suspects, were people who participated in the End Bad Governance protest.
“We have said time and time that to protest is a right of citizens.
“They were captured on video looting people’s businesses, destroying private businesses, and destroying public infrastructure.
“And you want the police to look the other way and leave them?
“Allow them to continue the destruction?
“No society will progress like that.”
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