Court Denies Six #EndSARS Protesters In Abuja Bail

Six #EndSARS protesters that were arrested on Friday for relaunching the demonstration have been remanded by a magistrate court in Abuja.

The protesters had converged on the entrance of the national assembly in continuation of the demonstration which stared early in October.

But the police used tear gas and gunshots to disperse the protesters while six of them were later apprehended.

The police subsequently arraigned them before the magistrate court and charges them with criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, inciting public disturbance and public nuisance.

The protesters, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Tope Akinyode, a human lawyer who represented the accused persons, said the protesters were being held over “allegations of unlawful assembly and wanting to distort the societal peace.”

“Of course, those are clearly trumped up charges because the protesters protested in accordance with the law,” he said.

Akinyode said the magistrate refused to grant bail to the defendants when he moved an oral bail application.

He said the judge demanded that the bail application be done in writing.

“The magistrate cited the case of Asari Dokubo, an armed militant to reject the bail application. He told us to reapply in writing, ” Akinyode said in a tweet.