A Coalition of Northern Youth Groups has called on President Bola Tinubu to wade into the ongoing prosecution of underaged #EndBadGovernance protesters across the country, describing it as inhumane and condescending.
Appealing in a statement in Minna, the Founder of Yan- Endowment Initiative and BoT Chairman of Coalition of Northern Youths Group, Yahaya Usman, decried the ill-treatment of the minors in detention shown in their sickly looks and writhing in pain on the floor of the court.
The group also called on President Tinubu and northern state governors to establish a N250 billion Endowment Fund for Technical and Vocational Training in all Islamiyya Schools across Northern Nigeria to help rehabilitate and reintegrate them.
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According to Yahaya “this call became necessary due to the fact that most of those arrested are either poor ALMAJIRI children and or uneducated, unskilled and unemployed citizens who are all minors.
The federal government on Friday arraigned 76 of the minors who looked malnourished, and four of them were hurriedly rushed out of the courtroom as they could not stand on their feet.
In August this year, the Coalition of Northern Youth groups called on the federal and state governments to grant amnesty to protesters arrested across the country, saying it is to avoid further waste of scarce resources.
(Editor: Okechukwu Eze)
