FG SET TO ARRAIGN #EndBadGovernance PROTESTERS TODAY

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The Federal Government is poised to charge some of the leaders and organisers of the #EndBadGovernance protests, which took place from August 1 to 10, 2024, today.

The demonstrators are being tried for treason, encouraging mutiny, and attempting to undermine Nigeria.

Michael Adaramoye, popularly known as Lenin, Adeyemi Abayomi, Suleiman Yakubu, Opaoluwa Simon, and Angel Innocent are among the ten people who will be charged before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court.

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Others include Buhari Lawal, Mosiu Sadiq, Bashir Bello, Nuradeen Khamis, and Abdulsalam Zubairu.

In addition to the six counts filed by Inspector-General of Police Kayode Egbetokun, the Federal Government listed a British citizen, Andrew Wynne, aka Andrew Povich, as a defendant.

The defendants were accused of “treason, destabilising the country, intimidating the President, and destroying the NCC in Kano,” among other things, in the charge sheet marked FHC/ABJ/CR/454/2024.

The IG particularly accused the demonstrators of engaging in concert and conspiring to commit a criminal, namely treason, between July 1 and August 4, 2024, with the purpose of destabilising the country.

According to Egbetokun, the offence violated Section 95 and is punishable under Section 97 of the Penal Code.

The IG also said, “Between 1 July 2024 and 4 August 2024, at Karshi Abuja FCT, within the jurisdiction of this court, while acting in concert and with intent to destabilise Nigeria, (defendants) conspired together to commit felony, to wit: Inciting to mutiny and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 96 and punishable under Section 97 of the Penal Code.”

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The IG added that the protesters, between July 1, 2024, and August 10, 2024, in Abuja FCT, Kaduna, Kano, and Gombe, in collaboration with Andrew Wynne (aka Andrew Povich), a British citizen, with the intent to destabilise Nigeria, waged war against the state in order to intimidate or overawe the President by attacking and injuring police officers and burning police stations, the High Court Complex, the NCC Complex, the Kano Printing Press, Government House Karo, Kadama Investment, a

Egbetokun claimed the offence violated Section 410 of the Penal Code (Northern States) Federal Provisions Act CAP P3 LEN 204.

The defendants were also accused of collaborating with Wynne, a British citizen, with the intent to destabilise Nigeria, inciting public disturbance while carrying placards with the inscription ‘end bad government’ and several other inscriptions to incite disaffection with the government.

The IG stated that they violated Section 416 of the Penal Code (Northern States) Federal Provisions Act, CAP P3 LFN 204.