Counsel to the Nigerian government, Rimazonte Ezekiel has said that the EndBadGovernance protesters arraigned on Friday at the Federal High Court were all adults.
The statement comes amid the uproar that greeted the arraignment of the protesters, mostly minors, who participated during the recent EndBadGovernance protest.
DAILY POST reports that one of the minors arraigned collapsed before the commencement of trial.
However, in a video by Channels Television, Ezekiel, while speaking after the court proceeding, said most of the suspects were married men and that none of them is a minor.
The lawyer said they were arrested in Kaduna and Zaria.
“These boys that we brought to the court today, all of them are adults. Most of them are married men; none of them is a minor.
“Some of them are university graduates. The small kids that you are seeing here, they came with their parents to greet their loved ones. They are not even the real suspects standing trial in this…