A Magistrate’s Court in Ogba, Lagos State, has discharged six people who were among #EndSARS protesters after they had spent four years in a correctional facility for causing a breach of peace.

The defendants are Daniel Joyinbo, Adigun Sodiq, Kehinde Shola, Salaudeen Kamilu, Sodiq Usseni, and Azeez Isiaka.

Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi cautioned and discharged the defendants in a one-count amended charge dated August 22, which was brought against them by the Commissioner of Police.

The amended information, which was read to the defendants and to which they pleaded guilty, states: “You, Joyinbo, Sodiq, Shola, Kamilu, Usseni, and Isiaka, on November 23, 2020, at about noon at Ebute Metta, Lagos in the Lagos Magisterial District did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 168(d) of the Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2015.

The magistrate asked the defendants if they understood the content of their guilty plea and the court’s obligation to impose the maximum sentence on the charge.

The defendants admitted to the plea bargain amended one-count charge.

The prosecution counsel and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Dr Babajide Martins, urged the court to sentence the defendants according to their August 22 guilty plea agreement.

The defendants’ counsel, T.D. Ojeshina, pleaded with the court to tamper justice with mercy.

Osunsanmi, having found the defendants guilty and spent over four years in prison, cautioned and discharged them.