End of protest against bad governance: Drama in court as authorities charge minors among detained protesters with treason, riot

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Nigerian government charges 76 more police arrests during August 2024 End Bad Governance protests Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on a 10-count charge of treason, felony and incitement to revolt.

At least 27 of the suspects arrested by the police are boys under the age of 18, and some of them are as young as 14.

Four of the young defendants crash for the courtroom as the matter begins, prompting the trial judge to suspend the proceedings for some time.

The accused persons must plead one by one after a court official interprets the charges from English into Hausa. Dem pleads not guilty.

Goment bin don’t prosecute 10 pipo wey dem arrested during protests top charge they are not leaders and organizers of the protest and na dem bin asked the military to overturn this.

Some human rights activists tell BBC Pidgin that the teenagers must be arrested from August, when the police arrest them and they have not passed 80 days.

During the August 1-10 protest, videos spread on social media via the internet of children and adults flying the Russian flag in parts of the northern region of Nigeria.

At the moment, the protesters are calling for Russia to intervene in the Nigeria issue.

Nigerian authorities later said they did not arrest Pipo for flying Russian flags as a crime and treason.

One of the charges includes the boys “carrying, carrying and displaying Russian flags in public, chanting violent revolutionary songs, agitating for the Russian invasion of the Nigerian sovereign entity to overthrow the democratic government of Nigeria.”