#EndSARS campaigner, Eromosele Adene has been granted bail in the sum of N1 million by the Yaba Magistrate Court, Lagos, after being in police custody for over a week. The magistrate ruled against an application filed by the policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department seeking to remand Adene for an extra 30 days. Adene was taken away from his Lagos home in Ikeja, by police officers on November 7, 2020 ahead of a planned protest in Lagos. The 27-year-old was subsequently transferred to the Force CID at the Police Headquarters, Abuja on November 9, before he was later returned to Lagos on Sunday, November 15. He was detained for seven days in Abuja before being brought back to Lagos.
Eromosele was accused of criminal incitement, cyberstalking, provoking breach of public peace, and conduct likely to cause breach of peace.
The accusations were pegged on his call for a peaceful demonstration in Lagos state despite government's position against demonstrations which it order to be suspended.
Lawyer to Adene, Adesina Ogunlana, described the police application to remand him for an additional 30 days, which was laid before presiding magistrate 0. A Salawu, as a threat to the fundamental rights of his client.
Ogunlana said the defendant has the constitutional right to call for a protest, and noted that he had not been accused of calling for a riot.
Dozens of people were present at the hearing on Tuesday, with heavy police presence.
The magistrate court set bail at N1 million with two sureties, both of whom must be tax payers, and one of them required to own property in Lagos.
