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18 YEAR OLD ENDSARS PROTESTER GIVES BIRTH IN PRISON CUSTODY
NEWS reaching us says one of the persons arrested for destruction during the last #EndSARS protest in Ondo State, identified as Kemisola Oguniyi, aged 18 years old has reportedly given birth in prison custody.
TrackNews Online learned Oguniyi was arrested, along with three others – Ayodele Bukunmi, Ojo Samuel, and Ani Obinna, during the protest and had been remanded in the correctional center in Ondo town, Ondo State.
TrackNews Online further learned that the defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit a felony, arson, riotous assembly, stealing, and malicious damage.
The 18-year-old girl was said to have delivered a baby boy on June 16, 2021.
In a letter to the Ondo Chief Judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Akeredolu, the lawyer of the detainee, Mr. Tope Tomekun said his client was innocent of the charges preferred against her.
According to him, Ogunniyi was on her way to the Federal University of Technology, Akure, on the day to collect money for her mother’s treatment when she was apprehended by the men of the Nigerian Army, who later handed her over to the police.
He said, “She was later alleged to be part of those who set the APC Secretariat, Akure, on fire during the EndSARS protest that took place in October 2020.
“I write to you sir, first as a lawyer and in furtherance of my conviction as a believer in the humanitarian cause of justice, to appeal to you sir, that for the sake of the sinless newborn baby and in the interest of justice, to give a directive that this matter is given an urgent hearing.”