Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has been released from the Kuje Prison after perfecting the bail conditions granted by a Magistrate Court in Abuja.
Sowore, alongside Nnamdi Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, and 11 others, was arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest in the Federal Capital Territory last week.
The protesters were arraigned on Friday before Magistrate Abubakar Umar Sai’id on charges bordering on unlawful assembly and disturbance of public peace.
In his ruling, Magistrate Sai’id admitted them to bail in the sum of ₦500,000 each, with a condition that they present a verified National Identification Number (NIN).
The court further directed the defendants to provide their three-year tax clearance certificates and deposit their international passports as part of the bail requirements.
After fulfilling the bail terms, Sowore and the other defendants were freed from Kuje Prison on Monday.
His arrest last Thursday came shortly after he left the Federal High Court in Abuja, where he had attended a separate proceeding.
Recall that the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, noted that Sowore was remanded in prison pending the time he meets his bail conditions as pronounced by the court.
The statement reads, “Your story that he was arrested on a fresh charge and ‘whisked away…to Kuje Prison…to be arraigned on Monday’ is procedurally incorrect. A person arrested on a fresh charge cannot be taken straight to prison.
“No prison will accept such a person without a remand warrant duly issued by a competent court. He was taken to prison as instructed on the attached remand warrant pending when he meets his bail conditions, nothing more!”
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