Shehu Sani Urges President Tinubu To Unchain #EndSARS Protesters Detained Since 2020

• Shehu Sani Urges President Tinubu to Pardon #EndSARS Protesters Detained Since 2020.

• The #EndSARS protest, which targeted police brutality, led to damage of police stations and subsequent arrests.

• Sani highlighted at a Democracy Day event that the protesters should be seen as champions of democracy.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani, has urged President Bola Tinubu to pardon those incarcerated over the #EndSARS protest in 2020.

In 2020, Nigerian youths took to the streets to protest police brutality, resulting in damage to some police stations, formations, and offices, leading to arrests.

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While some of the arrested protesters have been released, others remain in detention in various police stations. Speaking at a special dinner organized to mark Democracy Day at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja, Sani emphasized that those who participated in the protest should be considered champions of democracy.

According to him, he and other of his peers who were part of the fight to entrench democracy in Nigeria as the ENDSARS protesters learnt from President Tinubu to be dogged.

The dinner was attended by President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima alongside their spouses.

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The President of the senate, speaker of the House of Representatives, secretary to the government of the federation, the chief justice of the federation, state governors, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), diplomats, traditional rulers, and lawmakers were among dignitaries that attended the dinner.

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