The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the 10 Nigerians charged with treason over last month’s #EndBadGovernance protests.
In a ruling on Wednesday, the judge, Emeka Nwite, granted each of the defendants bail in the sum of N10 million with one surety who must have property worth the bail sum in Abuja.
As part of the bail conditions, the judge ordered that the sureties must submit their passports to the court.
He did not attach any other conditions to the bail.
The 10 defendants earlier arraigned before the judge on 2 September include Michael Tobiloba Adaramoye (aka Lenin), 28 years; Adeyemi Abiodun Abayomi (aka Yomi), 34 years; Suleiman Yakubu, 28 years; Opaluwa Eleojo Simeon, 50 years; Angel Love Innocent, (the only female among them), 51 years.
The rest are Buhari Lawal, male, 21 years; Mosiu Sadiq, male, 28 years; Bashir Bello (aka Murtala), male, 51 years; Nuradeen Khamis, male, 47 years; and Abdulsalam Zubairu, male, 37 years.
Their lawyers had…