After two months of being detained in the custody of Department of State Security, DSS, the Federal High Court in Abuja, Friday, granted bail to the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore but with stringent conditions.
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu barred Sowore and a co-defendant from addressing any rally pending the conclusion of their trial on charges of treasonable felony among others.
Ojukwu also barred Sowore from traveling out of Abuja and the second defendant out of Osogbo, during the trial.
She granted bail to Sowore in the sum of N100 million with two sureties in like sum.
The sureties who must be resident in Abuja must also have landed assets worth the bail sum in Abuja, and they are to deposit the original title documents of the assets with the court.
The judge also ordered him to deposit the sum of N50 million in the account of the court as security.
She granted bail to the second defendant in the sum of N50 million with one surety.
The defendants’ lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has described the bail conditions as stringent.
The judge ordered that the defendants be remanded in the custody of the Department of State Service pending when the would meet the bail conditions.
The Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 election and publisher of Sahara Reporters, after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered his immediate release on Tuesday, September 24, 2019.
Sowore was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) on August 3, 2019 after calling for nationwide protests, tagged RevolutionNow, against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
On September 20, 2019, the federal government slammed Sowore with seven charges bordering on alleged treasonable felony, fraud, money laundering and cyber-stalking.
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