Following the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest on Monday, October 20, an Abuja magistrates’ court has granted bails to people arrested for their involvement in the protest including activist Omoyele Sowore.
Others are Emmanuel Kanu (Nnamdi Kanu’s brother), and Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor.
A day after the protest, on Tuesday, October 21, Persecondnews recalls, the court had ordered the remand of Kanu’s brother, Ejimakor, and 11 others on the grounds of “inciting public disturbance.”
Activist Sowore was arrested later in the week, on Thursday, October 23, when police detained him shortly after he departed the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Persecondnews reported that Sowore had on Monday, October 20, led a protest in Abuja — part of the #FreeNnamdiKanu demonstrations that spread to other parts of the country.
During the protest, Kanu’s lawyer, Ejimakor, his brother, Emmanuel, and 11 others were arrested and subsequently remanded at Kuje Prison.
In the First Information Report filed before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kuje, the police alleged that the defendants, during the #FreeNnamdiKanu protest — which it said was held in defiance of a court order — chanted war songs and disrupted the free flow of traffic.
The police further alleged that they engaged in criminal conspiracy, incited disturbance, and caused a breach of public peace — offences said to be punishable under Sections 152, 114 and 113 of the Penal Code Law.
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