By Damilare Adeleye
Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi has been granted N30 million bail by a Magistrate court sitting in Ekiti State.
It was gathered that the bail conditions also include two sureties with one of them being a property owner in the state.
Farotimi was also required to submit his passport, and stop granting media interviews.
Former presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, made this known in a short statement posted on his social media platforms.
He wrote, “The Kangaroo Magistrate Court has granted Dele Farotimi bail, subject to the following conditions: a 30 million bond, two sureties (one of whom must be a property owner), submission of his passport, and a prohibition on granting media interviews.”
Farotimi was arrested following a petition by a legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN).
Some of the charges against Farotimi read, “That you Dele Farotimi ‘m’ sometimes in 2024 authored, published and circulated your book titled: “Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System” which was received and read all over the world including Ado-Ekiti within the Ado-Ekiti Magisterial District wherein you stated at page IX of the book: “That Aare Afe Babalola corrupted the Supreme Court to procure a fraudulent judgment in the service of his clients” which is likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or disturb the public peace knowing or having reason to believe that the Statements is false and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 59(1) of Criminal Code Act.
“That you Dele Farotimi ‘m’ sometimes in 2024 authored, published and circulated your book titled: “Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System” which was received and read all over the world including Ado-Ekiti within the Ado-Ekiti Magisterial District wherein you stated at page X: “That Aare Afe Babalola, Olu Daramola, Olu Faro and the law offices of Afe Babalola & Co, (Emmanuel Chambers) compromised the Supreme Court and the remaining semblance of integrity it might have had when they went back to the Supreme Court and got that Court to swim in the sewer of corruption and shameful self-abnegation which is likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or disturb the public peace knowing or having reason to believe that the Statements is false and thereby committed an offence.”
