The two men were arrested and kept in a correctional facility in Kabba, Kogi State, for protesting and pasting critical posters against President Muhammadu Buhari in Kogi State last year.
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Anti-Buhari protesters secretly arraigned, remanded in Kogi prison
Jesusegun Alagbe with agency report
Published 5:30 am
Published 5:30 am
Two men, Anene Victor and Emmanuel Larry, who were arrested for protesting against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), in Kogi State have been secretly arraigned before a magistrates’ court in Lokoja, the state capital.
Victor and Larry had been seen in a viral video on Monday holding “Buhari must go” posters. The two were seen being flogged by youths for protesting.
An online newspaper,
TheCable, on Friday reported that the protesters’ lawyer, Benjamin Omeiza, said his clients were arraigned on Tuesday at the Magistrates’ Court 1, Lokoja, popularly called Lugard Court, on charges bordering on treasonable felony and inciting public unrest.
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