Detained Teenage Nursing Mother, Kemisola, Admitted To ₦10 Million By Ondo High Court

By Ayodele Oni

Payment of ₦10 million as one of the conditions for the release of the detained nursing mother, that was delivered of a baby boy last week may delay her freedom.

However, Counsel to the accused person, Mr Tope Temokun says there is no cause for alarm over the bail condition.

The Ondo State high Court, sitting at Olokuta Correctional Centre, Akure, the state capital, on Tuesday, granted the bail request of  kemisola ogunniyi, the detained #EndSars protester who had been in Prison custody.

The bail is coming a day to the naming ceremony of the baby.

Kemisola Ogunniyi was arrested along with three other suspects, by the Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force, during the curfew imposed in Ondo State  in the wake of the #EndSARS protest in October 2020 and was accused of setting ablaze the APC Secretariat.

She was charged for arson, conspiracy, stealing and malicious damage.

Granting the bail application, Justice Omolara Adejumo cited Section 146, 150, 156 of the Ondo State criminal justice law, stressing that she was released based on humanitarian ground, and for the purpose of the naming ceremony, adding that she has a right to be granted bail.

Reacting to the conditional bail, the Counsel expressed satisfaction with the release as well as the bail condition.

The defendant’s Counsel had boasted on Monday that though the child was born at a correctional centre, the name christening would not take place there.

The Judge had on Monday declined to hear the bail application claiming she was not aware of it.

Kemisola’s case was brought to the public last week after she put to bed a bouncing baby boy, almost after eight months in detention.

Her long stay in detention without trial has been blamed on the strike by the judiciary workers, which lasted for over two months.