Sowore, 4 others to spend three more nights in detention
Activist, Omoyele Sowore and four others will spend at least three more nights in detention following the adjournment of the ruing on their bail application.
Chief Magistrate Mabel Segun-Bello, on Tuesday, fixed January 8 after listening to the application moved by the lawyer to the defendants, Marshal Abubakar and the opposition by the prosecutor.
The court also ordered the defendants to be remanded at the Force CIID facility in Area 10, following complaints by Mr Sowore that they were denied food and medical attention at the Kuje Correctional Centre.
Segun-Bello further ordered the Police to provide the third defendant, Damilare Adenola who is a law student of the University of Abuja, with internet facilities and writing materials to enable him to join his classmates who resumed online classes on January 5.
Sowore and the four others were arraigned on January 4, on three counts of criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, and inciting public disturbance but they all pleaded not guilty to the charges.
They were arrested by the police on New Year’s Eve during a candlelight procession organised by Sowore against bad governance.