EndSARS: 23-year-old freed after spending 15 months in prison
A Borno indigene, Peter John, has reunited with family and friends after spending 15 months in prison, his lawyer, Fetus Ogun, told PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday., a Benin Republic national, was freed.
“He was the last defendant in that matter who was left in custody. And ever since the court resumed, we have been on it since the beginning of this year. And he was out yesterday,” he said. “I had a horrible experience in prison. I was arrested for what I didn’t do. I was not arrested at any riot venue. I was arrested days after the riot on my way to work at Lekki new market,” he told the newspaper.
“Prisoners cannot even consume the kind of food they give to us. They give us food two times a day. In the morning, they give us beans and if you dare eat the beans, you will fall sick and suffer diarrhoea. After the beans, they will give us garri in the evening.”
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