The Nigeria Police Force has described as innacurate and misleading the report released by Amnesty International on the End Bad Governance Protest in Nigeria in August 2024
At a news conference in Abuja this Sunday, the Force Public Relations Officer ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said evidence available to the Police indicates that certain elements infiltrated the protests with the intention of inciting violence.
Adejobi insisted that detentions and prosecutions were conducted within legal frameworks.
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Amnesty International had on the twenty-eight of November 2024, released a report titled “Bloody August: Nigeria Government’s Violent Crackdown on #EndBadGovernance Protests,” where several allegations were made against the Nigeria Police, including the killing of at least twenty-four (24) persons in six northern states during the protests.
(Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
