By Agency Report
Omoyele Sowore and four others have been remanded at Kuje Correctional Centre.
This followed an order of a Magistrate court in Wuse Zone 2, on Monday in Abuja.
This is pending when their formal bail application will be heard Tuesday, January 5, 2020.
The Magistrate, Mabel Segun-Bello while ruling on the oral bail application said all the charges are bailable, except if the defendants are deemed likely to evade trial or commit the same offence.
She asked that the formal bail application should be brought before here at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday and ordered that the defendants be allowed access to medical attention and to a lawyer of their choice.
Sowore is being arraigned alongside four others by the Federal Government on three charges of criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, and attempting to incite others.
Although they all pleaded not guilty to the charges, the prosecution alleged that the defendants were arrested on New Year’s eve with placards calling for a violent revolution against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Sowore was arrested by the police for leading a protest against bad governance on New Year’s Eve in Abuja.
