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Ending protest against bad governance: Nigerian government refused to charge minors

Online Niel November 3, 2024

We call it dis photo, Some of the cops di pipo wey accuse in court for abuja since 14 years old

November 1, 2024

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The Nigerian government said they will refer the juvenile’s charge to the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday.

At least 27 of the suspects are appearing before Justice Obiora Egwuatu as boys under the age of 18 and some of them are as young as 14.

The Nigerian police are arraigning the suspects in two batches of 76 and 42 over the bad governance protests that have ended around the world.

However, Nigeria through the attorney general of di kontri does not ask for the case file, does dem torchlight di mata.

For internal statements, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, told the police to bring the file of the minors.

“It just came to my knowledge, I say the police do not charge pipo wey dem bin arrest in connection with the end of a violent protest against bad governance in court for various crimes including treason.

My office needs to look into some issues related to di mata so that I can make an informed decision.”

I will add that although I know to say that the court does not release the defendants from the detention centers and adjourn the case until January, I do not have the power to change the order of the court to keep the minors for the detention centers and adjourn the case. until January.

“However, I direct the Nigeria Police to transfer the file to my office and hand it over to the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation (DPPF) on Saturday, November 2, 2024.

I also direct the DPPF to immediately set the machinery in motion for the court to consider advancing the adjournment date (to an earlier date),” the statement concluded.

Wetin really happun and some of the charges

Photos of minors inside the Abuja High Court circulated on social media. A judge for Nigeria on Friday granted bail to each of the 114 pipo weys arrested in police custody during the August 2024 End Bad Governance protests.

Justice Obiora Egwuatu granted bail on the 10 counts of treason, felony and sedition in Nigeria.

At least 27 of the suspects are young boys under the age of 18, some of whom are as young as 14.

One of the charges from the police said the boys “carry, carry and publicly display Russian flags and sing violent revolutionary songs calling for the Russian invasion of the Nigerian sovereign entity to overthrow the democratic government of Nigeria.”

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.

Goment bin accused 10 pipo at the top of the same protest, we said that they must not be leaders and organizers and that they did not ask the army to overthrow this government.

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.

It’s time for Tori to say that the protesters are asking Russia to step in for Nigeria.

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

Four of the accused collapse in court

On Friday, for the court, as the court official read the di mata and named pesins charges, four of the boys simply collapse for the floor.

It caused some drama inside the courtroom as dia lawyers – led by marshal Abubakar and Deji Adeyanju – and oda pipo for the court begin to revive them.

Finally, the prosecutor, Audu Garba, agreed to drop the names of the four defendants from the charge due to ill health.

Di oda accused Pesins begin to plead one by one after a court official fails to interpret the charges from English into Hausa.

Bail of 10 million naira each, totaling 1.14 billion naira

Judge Egwatu notes that some of the accused are under 18 and that the lawyers do not promise not to interfere with the trial or destroy evidence.

We therefore grant bail in the sum of 10 million naira each with two sureties. One of the sureties must be a public official and can be either a parent or a sibling of the accused.

Pending perfect bail conditions, those below the age of 18 will be detained at the Kuje Correctional Center while minors among them will be detained for the Nigeria Correctional Service Borstal House.

“Boardhouses” can keep and reform juveniles and young offenders.

After the first set of 76 defendants, the prosecution team also brings a batch of 42 accused with the same set of crimes, which makes 118 defendants, but dem bin comot di name of four pipo wey bin collapse for the court.

In total, Justice Egwuatu grants 10 million naira bail to 114 of the accused protesters, we will make the total bail amount to 1.14 billion naira.

The trial judge adjourned the matter to January 24, 2025, for hearing.

Did you say the law about charging minors in court?

According to section 29 of the Nigerian Constitution, adults do not attain the age of 18 years. Anyone under this age is a minor.

Normally, if they are minors to commit a crime, not for juvenile court, let’s say we try, but not for all crimes, Chika Mbanusi, we will be a lawyer, says BBC Pidgin.

Section 30 of the Penal Code Act states that minors under the age of 12 are criminally guilty of a civil or criminal offense if “it is proved that at the time of the act or omission I lacked the capacity to know that I should not to do an action or an omission’.

However, with precedence, the Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the Jigawa State High Court and the Court of Appeal in the case of Yusuf Musa vs di State for 2022.

For this case, the Supreme Court ruling says that an eleven-year-old minor fell several times and killed the machete, being guilty of manslaughter, even though the boy was under 12 years old.