Rights activist Thomas Olamide, who was arrested for cursing President Bola Tinubu’s son, has been granted N10 million with one surety by an Abuja Federal High Court on Monday.

Olamide appeared in court on Monday morning with S.M. Oyeghe and J.A. Ekwe, her lawyers, for her bail hearing in a case marked FHC/ABJ/CR/636/2024; Thomas Abiodun Olamide versus Inspector General of Police and two others.

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Granting her bail, the court ruled that she had shown no intention to escape. Accordingly, the presiding judge granted the bail application on the following terms.

A N10 million bail with one surety in like sum. The surety was mandated to depose to an affidavit of means showing that they are capable of being a surety, present an annual tax clearance of the past three years and reside within the jurisdiction of the court with a verifiable address.

Additionally, the surety and Thomas were required to deposit two recent passport photographs.

The case was adjourned until January 21.

BACKSTORY

On November 7, FIJ reported how the police arrested Lanre Shotunde, an Ogun State-based businessman, in place of Thomas even when proxy arrest is prohibited by Nigerian laws.

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The Intelligence Response Team, a formation supervised by the IGP, eventually arrested Thomas in Lagos State on December 13 on the basis of a Facebook post she had made cursing Seyi Tinubu, the president’s son, and the IGP. She was later transferred to Abuja where she was detained for several days without being arraigned in court.

Following intensive media backlash, the police arraigned her before the court on December 20. The court remanded Thomas in the Suleja Custodial Centre.

Until her bail on Monday, her bail application had been stalled multiple times making her spend Christmas Day, her birthday and New Year’s Day in prison.