Protest Arrests: Sowore, Kanu’s brother, 11 others get bail

Following their detention over their participation in the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest, activist Omoyele Sowore, lawyer Aloy Ejimakor, and Emmanuel Kanu, along with ten other demonstrators, regained their freedom on Friday after a Magistrate’s Court in Kuje, Abuja, granted them bail.

The court granted each defendant bail in the sum of ₦500,000, with two sureties in like sum, following their arraignment on charges of inciting public disturbance and breach of peace linked to the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest held in Abuja on Monday, 20 October.

 While Ejimakor, Emmanuel Kanu, and ten other demonstrators were arrested during the protest and subsequently remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Sowore was apprehended separately on 23 October at the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja. He was reportedly there to show solidarity during Kanu’s ongoing terrorism trial when security operatives detained him.

The court’s decision to grant bail came after legal representatives argued that the accused persons had exercised their constitutional right to peaceful assembly and posed no threat to public order.