Youths protest in Kaduna over El-Rufai’s detention, demand release

Youths successful Kaduna State connected Wednesday staged protests implicit the ongoing detention of erstwhile politician Nasir El-Rufai, calling for his contiguous release.

The demonstrators, comprising youths, women and different residents from assorted communities, gathered astatine cardinal locations crossed Kaduna metropolis and parts of Southern Kaduna.

They carried placards bearing messages specified arsenic “Free El-Rufai Now” and “Justice for Our Leader,” portion chanting songs successful enactment of the erstwhile governor.
Some banners besides read, “Kaduna Demands Governance, Not Revenge.”

The protestation followed the refusal of bail aft El-Rufai’s apprehension by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).

Speaking during the protest, Ibrahim Modibbo Sanusi, who identified himself arsenic a person of the Arewa Youth Movement, described the erstwhile governor’s detention arsenic unfair and politically driven.

“We are present to explicit our dissatisfaction implicit the continued detention of our leader,” helium said.
“We request his contiguous and unconditional release. Justice indispensable not lone beryllium done but indispensable besides beryllium seen to beryllium done.”

Sanusi warned that ...