Bail For Detained Nursing Mother Stalled At Ondo High Court

By Ayodele Oni

Despite the noise and legal moves to release on bail, a teenage female detainee that was delivered of a baby boy last week, the naming ceremony of the newly born may take place at the Correctional Centre.

The baby will be eight days old on Wednesday, and efforts to release the mother on bail on Monday hit the rock.

The sitting Judge, Justice Omolara Adejumo, insisted that the bail and release of Kemisola Ogunniyi could not take place as she was unaware of the application.

Kemisola, the detained #EndSars Protester who delivered in Prison custody, was arraigned at High Court No 10, Olokuta Correctional Centre, Ondo Road, Akure before Justice  Adejumo.

Counsel to Kemisola,  Mr Tope Temokun told Journalists that  he had sought audience with the Judge and he was made to have confidence that tomorrow, Tuesday, 22nd July 2021, the bail application will be taken.

“The assurance we had was to get her released today but as a lawyer, I know the procedure.

“There  is nothing negative about this issue, the whole world knew that a boy was born and I am very sure that tomorrow, the whole world will also know the name of that boy.

“The boy has been announced to the world and I am very confident that the boy is going to be great.

“But that is not to say that we should allow the naming ceremony to take place in prison. And we are fighting against that seriously.

“We are fighting that Kemisola should not deliver in prison, but she eventually delivered in prison, the noise was everywhere, so  if we say we don’t want the naming ceremony in the prison custody, it is still part of the agitation to get her released.

“It’s  not about negativity, when we talk about prominent people in the world, most of them have been to the prison. Is it Mandela or Buhari? Obasanjo or Yar”Adua?

“I am confidently telling you that the quest to release Kemisola from prison is not about any negativity because I know that the boy is already born great and people are eager to know the baby’s name.

“I must assure you that Kemisola will not spend Eight Days in the custody after delivery.

He expressed  optimism that  tomorrow, she would be granted bail because the naming ceremony is on Wednesday.”