JUSTICE Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday granted a N10 million bail to each of the 114 #EndBadGovernance protesters arraigned by the Federal Government on charges bordering on treasonable felony, rioting, destruction of public property, assaulting security officials, looting, among others.
They were arraigned in two batches of 76 and 42.
However, four out of the first 76 were not tried because they collapsed in the courtroom.
The four, who were minors and looking very malnourished, fainted as they approached the dock for arraignment with their lawyers rushing to give them aid.
The prosecuting counsel applied to the court for the four suspects who fainted to get first aid and be arraigned later.
Justice Egwuatu on seeing the situation called a brief recess to enable the protesters who were sick to be attended to.
Upon resumption, the court granted the prayers for four suspects to be excempted from the arraignment to a later date.
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