Muktar Dahiru, a broadcast journalist with Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN)’s Pyramid FM, Kano State, has been detained again for failing to fulfil his bail condition.

The insider who spoke with FIJ on September 3 said that Umma Kurawa, the magistrate who presided over the case, ordered Dahiru’s re-arrest and remand at a correctional centre within the state.

He added that Dahiru had breached one of his bail conditions by posting content related to the case on his Facebook page after being instructed not to do so.

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“From the information I gathered from the court, he didn’t fulfil his bail condition, but was accordingly released without meeting them,” he told FIJ on Saturday.

“The complainant inquired and the court asked him (Dahiru) to come. However, immediately after he was directed to reappear in the court, he posted on his page. The post claimed that after meeting all the bail requirements, the judge insisted that he should continue to stay in the correctional centre.

“And a part of his bail condition was not to post anything about the case on his Facebook page.”

FIJ saw that Dahiru’s Facebook page contained a September 4 post celebrating his freedom. The translation did not indicate that he mentioned the magistrate wanting to keep him in the correctional centre.

The source said this made Magistrate Kurawa revoke his bail condition and order for his continued detention until October 2 when his case would be heard again.

FIJ contacted Dahiru on September 4, but he said he was on his way to meet the judge who had summoned him. He expressed concern that the judge would order his remand. Dahiru went quiet afterwards until the insider provided an update.

A day before this happened, Magistrate Kurawa had granted the journalist bail on the condition that he provide a N1 million fee and refrain from posting damaging content about Anas Abba Dala, the Senior Special Adviser to Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf on Political Awareness, who is the complainant.

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The judge mandated Dahiru to provide three reliable sureties which included his wife, the Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and a respectable individual in the society.

Dahiru was arrested on August 29 and was secretly tried before the Magistrate Court 24 at Gyadi Gyadi, Court Road, Kano with charges bordering on criminal conspiracy, defamation of character and intentional insult.