The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has described as unjustifiable the remand of Dele Farotimi, a human rights lawyer, at a correctional centre by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court.
While calling for the immediate release of Farotimi, the frontline Yoruba group stated that the offence for which the rights lawyer was arrested is bailable, hence the infringement on his rights.
An Ekiti State Chief Magistrates’ Court, Ado Ekiti Division had, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, in the state’s correctional centre over alleged defamation of character following his book, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System,’ where he alleged, among others, that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Afe Babalola, had compromised the Supreme Court.
Farotimi was arrested in Lagos on Monday by policemen from Ekiti State and whisked to Ado Ekiti, following which he was…
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