{"id":54869,"date":"2024-11-05T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=54869"},"modified":"2024-11-06T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:29:52","slug":"shettima-hands-over-freed-protesters-to-kaduna-kano-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/05\/shettima-hands-over-freed-protesters-to-kaduna-kano-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Shettima Hands Over Freed Protesters to Kaduna, Kano Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kashim Shettima officially handed over a group of recently freed minors, previously detained for protesting federal government policies, to the Governors of Kaduna and Kano States on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The symbolic handover ceremony, held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, marked a key step in the government&#8217;s effort to reconcile with the youth amid widespread calls for fair treatment of detained protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The minors, who were among several individuals arrested during demonstrations, were freed following an Abuja High Court decision to dismiss the case against them.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on behalf of President Bola Tinubu, Shettima transferred the young protesters to Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani and Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf, urging the governors to provide them with support and reintegration services.<\/p>\n<p>Top government officials were present at the event, including Education Minister Tunji Alausa, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction Nentawe Yilwatda, and Minister of Environment Balarabe Lawal.<\/p>\n<p>Their attendance underscored the administration&#8217;s commitment to a supportive and compassionate approach toward the freed minors and their families.<\/p>\n<p>This development follows President Tinubu&#8217;s directive to Attorney General Lateef Fagbemi to withdraw charges of treason and terrorism against the protesters, signaling the government\u2019s decision to drop legal action in favor of peace and community healing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Vice President Kashim Shettima officially handed over a group of recently freed minors, previously detained for protesting federal government policies, to the Governors of Kaduna and Kano States on Tuesday. The symbolic handover ceremony, held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, marked a key step in the government&#8217;s effort to reconcile with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":54873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54876,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54869\/revisions\/54876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}