The Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) has written to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice-President, over the arraignment and continued detention of 112 women in Owerri, Imo State.
In the letter, NOPRIN bemoaned that the arrest of the women, which it said came days after the arrest and detention of a journalist, in an attempt to force him to disclose the source of a story he wrote.
NOPRIN wrote: “Just few days after the Nigeria Police exposed the country to shame by arresting a Premium Times reporter…we are confronted with yet another episode of arresting unarmed, harmless women for embarking on a peaceful protest demanding the release of their leader.”
NOPRIN posited that the arrest of the women who were exercising their constitutional right and subsequent remand in prison portends damage to the democratic credentials of the government.
The organisation urged…
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