October 24, (THEWILL) — A magistrate’s court in Kuje, Abuja, has granted bail to activist and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and 13 others, including lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, and Prince Emmanuel Kanu, (brother of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu) who were arrested over Monday’s protest for the release of Kanu from the detention facility of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Presiding Magistrate, Abubakar Umar Sai’I’d, on Friday, admitted each of the defendants to a N500,000 with two sureties each in like sum.
In addition to the sum, the court directed that each defendant must present a verified National Identification Number (NIN), submit their passport, and show a tax-clearance certificate covering the past three years.
THEWILL earlier reported that Sowore was arrested shortly after leaving the premises of the federal high court in Abuja on Thursday. On Monday, he led the #FreeNnamdiKanuProtest in the nation’s capital where security operatives arrested Kanu’s brother, his lawyer and eleven other protesters.
The Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Mohammed Umar. had issued an interim order restraining Sowore and others from staging protests demanding the release of Nnamdi Kanu in certain sensitive areas of Abuja. The order barred demonstrations around the Aso Rock Villa, National Assembly, Force Headquarters, Court of Appeal, Eagle Square, and Shehu Shagari Way, pending the hearing of the motion on notice.
The court had remanded Ejimakor, Emmanuel Kanu, Joshua Emmanuel, Wilson Anyalewechi, Okere Kingdom Nnamdi, Clinton Chimeneze, Gabriel Joshua, Isiaka Husseini, Onyekachi Ferdinand, Amadi Prince, Edison Ojisom, Godwill Obioma, and Chima Onuchukwu, for “inciting public disturbance” during the protest.
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