By Miracle Ogunde
The embattled lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi has been granted bail in the sum of N30 million.
A magistrates’ court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, granted the bail at the hearing of the bail application on Friday.
Magistrate Abayomi Adeosun ruled in favour of Farotimi’s bail request, stipulated that the bail conditions included two responsible sureties and required Farotimi to surrender his international passport to the court. Additionally, he was instructed not to grant media interviews while the case was ongoing.
Farotimi was arraigned on Friday by the Ekiti Police Command, following a petition from an elder statesman and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Afe Babalola, who accused the activist of criminally defaming him in his recently-released book.
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