The activists have now spent 17 days in various police and security detention facilities.
Nigerians have continued to demand for the unconditional release of Michael Adaramoye, popularly known as Michael Lenin, Eleojo Opaluwa, Mosiu Sodiq Abolaji, and other Nigerians who were arrested over the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests.
The activists have now spent 17 days in various police and security detention facilities.
Like other detained protesters, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested Michael Lenin, one of the key leaders of #EndBadGovernance protests in the Federal Capital Territory on August 5, the fifth day of the nationwide hunger protest.
Lenin, National Coordinator of the Youth Rights Campaign, had strongly criticised President Bola Tinubu's speech, describing it as a masterful exercise in gaslighting, manipulation, and doublespeak that has long plagued Nigeria's public discourse.
Lenin argued that the protests are a lawful response by the Nigerian people to the Tinubu-led government's failure to address systemic injustices after over 14 months in power.
He rejected the President's claim that the protests are driven by a political agenda to destabilise the country, calling it a baseless attempt to discredit the movement by attributing false motives to it.
SaharaReporters had reported how the government through the Nigeria Police Force on Monday postponed the arraignment of Lenin and other detained #EndBadGovernance protesters to Friday, August 23.
The arraignment of the protesters was shifted amid a large contingent of security personnel deployed to the Federal High Court complex in Abuja on Monday.
With their continued detention, a human rights activist, Francis Nwapa, like other Nigerians, demanded immediate and unconditional release of the protesters.
He wrote, “Today is Day 17 they were abducted by the NIA and detained at the IRT @PoliceNG facility Abuja under the command of @NuhuRibadu for demanding good Governance in Nigeria.
“We reject the Oppressive @officialABAT govt. Release them Now!”
The Take It Back Movement (TIB) and several other human rights and civil society organisations have called for release of the detained protesters.
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