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Premium Times reporter regains freedom
A journalist, Samuel Ogundipe with Premium Times, an online news platform who was arrested and detained on Tuesday has regained his freedom.
Ogundipe who was arrested by the police and reportedly quizzed to disclose the source of a report authored by him and published on his platform was released on Friday.
According to a Premium Times report, Ogundipe breath the air of freedom after he was granted bail by magistrate Abdulwahab Mohammed of the Kubwa Grade 1 Magistrate Court in Kubwa, Abuja.
It was the same judge who had first heard the case on Wednesday after Mr Ogundipe was secretly arraigned without being allowed legal representation.
On that day, Mr Mohammed granted a request by the police that the journalist be detained for five days until August 20.
The paper stated that it received information that Mr Ogundipe was to be taken to the same court on Friday, and thus, the company’s lawyer was present at the court.
At the court, the lawyer argued for the bail of Mr Ogundipe, a request that was not opposed by the police counsel.
Mr Mohammed granted the bail in the sum of N500,000 and a surety who must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction.
The bail conditions were met and Mr Ogundipe released.
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