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The Federal High Court in Abuja Thursday granted activist Omoyele Sowore bail in the sum of N10 million regarding the cybercrime case filed against him by the police over his unflattering social media remarks about Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun.
The police, on Monday, filed the cybercrime case, which attracts a penalty of a N7 million fine, up to three years’ imprisonment, or both, for his soal media remarks alleging that Mr Egbetokun is incompetent and unlawfully in office.
As part of his bail conditions granted Mr Swore, the court ordered him to provide one surety who is resident and owns landed property in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The trial judge Abdulla Liman, who dismissed the prosecution’s objection to Mr Sowore’s bail request in his ruling on Thursday, also said the surety must be “a prominent and responsible Nigerian citizen”.
He also ordered that the surety must swear an Affidavit of Means and deposit with the registrar of the court an original Certificate of Occupancy of a landed property in Abuja, which must be verified by the court’s registrar.
The judge also ordered Mr Sowore and his surety to submit their recent passport photographs and their means of identification preferably the National Identity Card with the to the court’s registrar…
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