Amnesty condemns arrest, detention of five men over ‘Tinubu Must Go’ t-shirts

Amnesty International has condemned the apprehension and detention of 5 men successful Maiduguri, Borno State, implicit their alleged engagement successful wearing T-shirts bearing the inscription, “Tinubu Must Go.”

The 5 men were identified arsenic Baba Aji Gremami, Mustapha Abba Yemen, Abacha Mohammed Ali, Adam Umar Gubio and Abdulhamid Mohammed.

According to Amnesty, the men were arrested and charged aft allegedly printing and wearing the T-shirts. They were accused of transgression conspiracy, inciting disturbance of nationalist bid and thuggery.

Amnesty International described the detention arsenic arbitrary and said expressing governmental absorption done a connection connected covering should not, successful itself, represent a transgression offence.

“Hurriedly remanding them successful situation and accusing them bizarrely of the intent to origin breach of nationalist bid wrong West End Roundabout Community Maiduguri simply for wearing a T-shirt with a connection of governmental dissent is not a crime,” the organisation said.

It added that governmental absorption and the look of governmental views were portion of cardinal quality rights.

“The close to amusement and explicit governmental sentiment is not exclusive to lone 1 governmental party,” Amnesty said.

The organisation called connected the authorities to instantly merchandise the 5 men and wantonness what it described arsenic immoderate effort to ...