Sowore Decries ‘Discriminatory’ Conditions As Court Slams N20m Bail On Activist
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has directed the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, to pay N20 million for bail in the unlawful assembly (during New Year’s Eve) charges filed against him by the Police Force.
Sowore, in a tweet on Monday, described his treatment by the Police as well as the bail conditions by the court as being too harsh.
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“They kept us inside mosquito-infested cells run by #SARS in Abuja, after that they sent us to Kuje prison and later another dingy police cell operated by the FCIID, today we’ve been granted bail on discriminatory and harsh conditions,” he tweeted.
Channels Television reports that the court granted Sowore N20million bail while others arraigned with him were told to pay 1 million naira each.
Chief Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello, also ruled that they must provide sureties and he limited Sowore’s movement to Abuja.
THE WHISTLER earlier reported that Sowore had alleged that he sustained a broken nose in his face-off with operatives of the Nigeria Police Force.
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The court had on January 4, ordered that he and some activists be remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre.
