- Safiu Kehinde
A Federal High Court in Abuja has, on Wednesday, granted N10 million bail each with one surety each for the 10 #EndBadGovernance protesters charged with treason.
Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on their bail applications, agreed with the submissions of the counsel for the defendants.
The jury ordered that each of the defendants’ sureties must own a landed property in Abuja and submit the documents of the property to the registrar of the court.
Recall that the Federal Government had, on Sept. 2, arraigned the protesters on counts bordering on treason, intent to destabilise Nigeria, conspiracy to commit felony and inciting mutiny, among others, which are punishable under Section 97 of the Penal Code.
The Federal Government, through the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, field the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/454/2024 on Aug. 30 against the defendants.
10 of the 124 persons arraigned included Michael Adaramoye also known as Lenin; Adeyemi Abayomi, Suleiman Yakubu, Opaluwa Simon, Angel innocent, Buhari Lawal, Mosiu Sadiq, Bashir Bello, Nuradeen Khakis and Abdusalam Zubairu.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty of the charges.
NPO Reports the arrest of the protesters across the country during the August protest which led to destruction of property and loss of lives in some parts of the country.