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Court denies human rights activist, Dele Farotimi bail on defamation charges
A magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has denied bail to embattled human rights activist, Dele Farotimi.
Farotimi was arrested by the police in Lagos last Tuesday following a petition by a legal luminary, Afe Babalola, and moved to Ekiti State.
He was subsequently arraigned on defamation charges before an Ekiti State Magistrate Court last Wednesday.
READ ALSO: Dele Farotimi returns to Ekiti court over defamation allegations
Magistrate Abayomi Adeosun ordered his remand in the correctional centre and set December 10 (today) for his bail hearing.
At the court hearing on Tuesday, the presiding magistrate, Abayomi Adeosun, postponed the decision on Farotimi’s bail application to December 20.
This happened after the police counsel, Samson Osobu, argued that the bail application submitted by the defendant was incomplete and not properly filed.
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