Police arraign lawyer, 5 others – TheNigerialawyer

The police on Tuesday arraigned five people and a lawyer for the
#RevolutionNow protests, in an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court
in Lagos.

The police charged Ehis Omoshomio, 35; Gabriel Ojumah, 51, Juwon
Sanyaolu, 22; Stanley Anobi, 28; Elias Ozikpu, 30; Kenechukwu
Ukachukwu, 25, with two counts of unlawful assembly and conduct
likely to cause breach of the peace.

They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred
against them.

Mr Ibijoke Akinpelu counsel from the State Criminal Intelligence
and Information Department (SCIID) Panti, and the resident
prosecutor, Insp. Kehinde Omisakin, said that the defendants
committed the offence on Aug. 5, at 10 a.m., at Surulere
Stadium.

Akinpelu alleged that the six defendants, assembled at the
National Stadium Surulere to protest, adding that the gathering was
unlawful and caused fear to the public.

The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of Sections 44
and 168(d) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Chief Magistrate A.O. Komolafe admitted Ojumah, a lawyer, to
bail based on self- recognition and the other five defendants N100,
000 each with two sureties each in like sum.

Komolafe adjourned the case until Sept. 26 for mention.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Omoyele Sowore,
publisher of the online medium, Sahara Reporters, who was also the
presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the
February 2019 General Election, had called the #RevolutionNow, in
what he described as a protest against bad governance in the
country. (NAN)

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