Breaking: Court grants Sowore, Bakare 150m bail

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted Omoyele Sowore 150 million naira bail.

Justice Ojukwu also barred Sowore and Bakare from addressing any rally pending the conclusion of their trial on charges of treasonable felony among others.

She also barred Sowore from traveling out of Abuja and the second defendant out of Osogbo, during the trial.

She granted bail to Sowore in the sum of N100m with two sureties in like sum, adding that the sureties must be resident in Abuja must also have landed assets worth the bail sum in Abuja, and would deposit the original title documents of the assets with the court.

Justice Ojukwu also ordered him to deposit the sum of N50m in the account of the court as security.

On the second defendant, she granted him bail in the sum of N50m with one surety.

Mr Femi Falana (SAN), the defendants’ lawyer, described the bail conditions as stringent.

The judge ordered that the defendants be remanded in the custody of the Department of State Service pending when the would meet the bail conditions.

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