Alleged cybercrime: Court grants N50m bail to Farotimi, confiscates passport
*You’ll suffer if you protest in Ekiti, group tells agitators A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, has granted a N50 million bail to human rights lawyer and activist, Mr. Dele Farotimi, over an alleged 12-count cybercrime charge preferred against him by the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun. Farotimi was last week arraigned before a magistrate's court, in Ado-Ekiti, over a petition written against him by the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, Aare Afe Babalola, on alleged defamation in his book titled ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Judicial System.’ However, the IGP filed a fresh suit marked FHC/AD/CR/104/2024 against Farotimi before the Federal High Court over a 12-count charge bordering on cybercrime. At the hearing of the matter, the presiding judge, Justice Babs Kuewumi, disagreed with the prosecutor, Samson Osubu, who argued that the court should not grant bail to the defendant as moved by his counsel. In his ruling, Justice Kuewumi granted the...