Trial Of Minors Is Proof That We Have Lost Every Sense Of Decency As A Nation – Bode George

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George has come out to condemn the arraignment of no fewer than 76 protesters arrested during the last #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest in the country.

Many of them have proven to be minors, and this development has generated lots of public condemnation.

Reacting, Bode simply said that the detention and arraignment of the minors in court is absolutely despicable, disgraceful and shameful, plus it proves that we have lost every sense of decency as a nation.

He added that it is a very unusual thing to see, and it is completely inhumane and disgraceful.

His words, “It is absolutely despicable, very wicked. These kids are underage, if they are members of their family would they do that to them? It’s utterly disgraceful, how can we be so wicked? We’ve left every sense of decency and humanity.

Why would the IGP not direct somebody to revoke that, they had to be detained in a cell and then brought to court, to do what? Don’t we have juvenile court, what’s going on here? Does it mean we’ve lost every sense of decency as a nation? You know what happens when they lock people up in the cell. Why?

I detest it and would continue to detest it. It’s inhumane. It’s disgraceful.

We knew what we suffered during the military.

It’s an unusual thing to happen. Yes, I know we haven’t reached the level where we would all be happy with civilian government. I went through the two (military and civilian governments) and have seen the two.

The major issue of disappointment in the country now is that INEC is not doing their job.

If they’re doing their job properly, and we know if we go through the electoral process, it is fair, the right people would be managing the government and then they would know they derive their power from the people.

When you have an election, they manipulate the results manually and all kinds of things; so people who are not voted for emerge as the manager of the country. So how do we get the right thing?

What is happening now is as a result of the type of the management of the electoral process. If whoever is there knows for sure that the people would play a major path in electing or denouncing him on the day of the election, he would wake up and work for the people, not fight for his pocket.”