#EndBadGovernance: KADUNA GOVT GIFTS N100,000, SMARTPHONES TO RELEASED PROTESTERS
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The #EndBadGovernance protesters who were freed received smartphones and N100,000 from Kaduna State Governor Sani Uba.
If the 39 protesters from Kaduna who were freed change their ways, the governor also pledged to empower them and rehabilitate them.
Speaking on behalf of Governor Sani, Secretary to the Kaduna State Government Abdulkadir Meyere revealed that the governor had instructed him to gather the credentials of individuals who have finished their postsecondary education.
“The Governor promised that some of them will be given start-up capitals to commence trading, others will be taught skills and some will be given employment,” he said.
The Kaduna State Government will monitor the actions and demeanour of all 39 freed #Endbadgovernance demonstrators to make sure they behave well “before the promised benefits are extended to them,” the SSG added.
He said, “The state government has taken the details of the released detainees including contact addresses, telephone numbers, and names of their next of kin, for easy tracking and monitoring”.
According to him, the released #EndBadGovernance protesters were all medically examined and given psycho-social counselling on the need to change for the better to be useful to themselves and society at large.
“Both Islamic and Christian religious leaders preached to them to embrace the teachings of their faiths and to avoid bad company, so as to benefit from God’s blessings here and in the hereafter,” he said.
The protests took place in August owing to the harsh economic conditions in Nigeria. It was largely peaceful but later morphed into a violent demonstration in some parts of the country with properties destroyed.
Months after the protests, the Federal Government arraigned some of the demonstrators on a 10-count charge. But the move was greeted with outrage after some of them were spotted as minors.
That prompted President Bola Tinubu to ask for their release.
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