A human rights advocate, Dele Farotimi, has been released from the correctional centre in Ekiti State after meeting his bail conditions.
Farotimi was released on Tuesday morning.
Last week Friday, at a magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, granted Farotimi bail conditions, including a N30 million bond, two sureties, one of whom must be a property owner, a submission of Farotimiโs passport and a prohibition of Farotimi granting media interviews once released.
However, addressing media personnel after his release, Farotimi said he had never had any course to lie against anyone in his life, adding that whatever he had said about someone or an institution was true.
โIt is not ever an easy journey when you are fighting evil, but some years back, before I started this work, God told me that the truth is enough. It is the only weapon with which you can slay the monster called Nigeria, which is the truth. In my war against the evil empire that we all lived in, I have never lied against anyone. If I donโt know, I will say I donโt know,โ he said.
Recall, on July 2, Farotimi released a bookย titledย โNigeria and Its Criminal Justice Systemโ.
Months after the 116-page bookโs release, renowned legal luminary Afe Babalolaย accused Farotimi of defamation,ย and this led to the human rights lawyer beingย arrested in a Gestapo-like manner at his Lagos office by a group of policemen attached to the Ekiti State Police Command on December 3.
Farotimi was then subsequently transported to Ekiti State.
Apart from the defamation charges initially brought against Farotimi at an Ekiti State Magistrate Court by Babalolaโs team, Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police also filedย 12 additional charges against the lawyer at an Ekiti Federal High Court on December 6.
Apart from the defamation charges initially brought against Farotimi at an Ekiti State Magistrate Court by Babalolaโs team, Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police also filedย 12 additional charges against the lawyer at an Ekiti Federal High Court on December 6.
Farotimi was arraigned in court on charges bordering on defamation and cyberbullying, stemming from a petition by legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Aare Afe Babalola, who alleged that Farotimi defamed him in his book.
According to the police, Farotimi, in the book, accused Babalola and other SANs of corrupting Justices of the Supreme Court.
