24th December 2024
Lawyer and human rights advocate, Dele Farotimi, was on Tuesday morning. released from the Ekiti State correctional centre after meeting his bail conditions.
A magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, had Last week Friday, granted Farotimi a N30 million bail with two sureties, one of whom must be a property owner, a submission of Farotimi’s passport and a prohibition of Farotimi granting media interviews once released.
However, addressing media personnel after his release, Farotimi insisted that he had never had any course to lie against anyone in his life, adding that whatever he had said about someone or an institution was the truth.
“It is not ever an easy journey when you are fighting evil, but some years back, before I started this work, God told me that the truth is enough. It is the only weapon with which you can slay the monster called Nigeria, which is the truth. In my war against the evil empire that we all lived in, I have never lied against anyone. If I don’t know, I will say I don’t know,” he said.
Dele Farotimi, had on July 2, released a book titled ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System’ which Months after the 116-page book’s release, renowned legal luminary Afe Babalola accused Farotimi of defamation, and this led to the human rights lawyer being abducted on December 3 from his Lagos office by a group of policemen attached to the Ekiti State Police Command.
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Farotimi was then subsequently arraigned for alleged defamation and remanded in Ekiti State correctional center.
Apart from the defamation charges initially brought against Farotimi at an Ekiti State Magistrate Court by Babalola’s team, Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police also filed 12 additional charges against the lawyer at an Ekiti Federal High Court on December 6.
The police, had alleged that Farotimi, in the book, ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System’ accused Babalola and other SANs of corrupting Justices of the Supreme Court.
