BREAKING: Court grants Nnamdi Kanu’s brother, lawyer, Sowore, others bail | READ DETAILS

Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, a member of the legal team representing the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu; his younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu; activist Omoyele Sowore and ten others, have been granted bail.

A Magistrate’s Court in Kuje, Abuja, on Friday granted them bail in the sum of ₦500,000, with two sureties in like sum.

All thirteen defendants were arrested and arraigned before the court for inciting public disturbance and breach of peace in connection with the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest held on Monday, October 20, in Abuja.

While Ejimakor, Emmanuel and the other ten defendants were arrested during the protest and later remanded at the Kuje Correctional facility, Sowore was apprehended on October 23 as he stepped out of the Federal High Court in Abuja after attending Kanu’s terr-orism trial to show solidarity.