{"id":560616,"date":"2024-08-22T17:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/court-discharges-6-endsars-protesters\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:35:54","slug":"court-discharges-6-endsars-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/court-discharges-6-endsars-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Court discharges 6 #Endsars protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Ikeja Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday discharged and acquitted six men charged with breach of the public peace during the 2020 #Endsars protest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They are Daniel Joyinbo, Adigun Sodiq, Kehinde Shola, Salaudeen Kamilu, Sodiq Usseni and Azeez Isiaka.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants had in a plea bargain agreement, pleaded guilty to a count charge of breach of the public peace preferred against them by Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to the plea bargain agreement, the Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, found the defendants guilty and convicted them of the offence.<\/p>\n<p>She, however, cautioned and discharged them, adding that they had spent almost four years in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Director for Public Prosecutions (DPP), Dr Babajide Martins, told the court that he had an amended charge.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the defendants committed the offence on Nov. 23, 2020, at 12:00pm at Ebutte Metta, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the defendants conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause breach of the public peace.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the offence contravened Section 168(d) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Martins, however, urged the court to sentence the defendants based on their plea.<\/p>\n<p>Their legal representative, Mr T.D Ojeshino, pleaded to the court to tamper justice with mercy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy lord, I plead the court to tamper justice with mercy as the defendants are first time offenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome are bread winners of their families and still very young.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been in custody since 2020 and have truly learnt their lessons,\u201d he said. (NAN)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:100%;border-top:1px solid #006E00FF;max-height:250px;background:#AAFFAAFF;padding:4px;color:#006E00FF\">\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%2070%2070'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.5050plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/crawlomatic\/580b57fcd9996e24bc43c543.png66c757a51c795.jpg\" width=\"70px\" height=\"70px\" style=\"float:right;max-height:70px;max-width:70px\" \/> Join Daily Trust WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1670932839695-0\" style=\"min-width: 300px;min-height: 60px\">  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ikeja Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday discharged and acquitted six men charged with breach of the public peace during the 2020 #Endsars protest. They are Daniel Joyinbo, Adigun Sodiq,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":560617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-560616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianewspapers.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}