The Ondo high court has granted bail to Kemisola Ogunniyi,
an 18-year-old girl detained over the #EndSARS protest in the state.
Ogunniyi, who has been in custody since October 2020, gave
birth to a baby boy last Wednesday.
Omolara Adejumo, the judge, granted Kemisola bail in the sum
of N10 million and a surety in like sum on Tuesday.
Ogunniyi was arrested with three others by security
operatives during the #EndSARS protest last year.
She and the other suspects were accused of being part of
those who razed the state secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in
Akure during the protest.
They were charged with conspiracy to commit arson, riotous
assembly, stealing, and malicious damage and were remanded in Surulere prison
in Ondo west LGA of the state.
The other suspects are Ojo Samuel, Ayodele Bukunmi, and Ani
Obinna.
In a letter to Oluwatoyin Akeredolu, Ondo chief judge, Tope
Tomekun, her lawyer, had said Ogunniyi was innocent of the crime preferred
against her.
Tomekun said the teenager was on her way to the Federal
University of Technology Akure (FUTA) to collect money for her mother’s
treatment when she was apprehended by the Nigerian Army at random and handed
over to the police for investigation.
“She was later alleged to be part of those who set the APC
Secretariat, Akure, on fire during the EndSARS protest that took place in
October 2020,” he had said.
“I write to you sir, first as a lawyer and in furtherance of
my conviction as a believer in humanitarian cause of justice, to appeal to you
sir, that for the sake of the sinless newborn baby and in the interest of
justice, to give directive that this matter be given an urgent hearing.”
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