A Federal High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has again refused to grant bail to Solomon Akuma, the pharmacist who criticised President Muhammadu Buhari on his Twitter page and was arrested on April 2, 2020 in Aba, Abia State.
Akuma, 29, was arrested for allegedly making a social media post against the President and his late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and had spent three months in detention without a court order or trial until he was eventually arraigned for charges bordering on terrorism, sedition, criminal intimidation of the President, and threat to the life of Buhari. The presiding judge, Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbajo, on Tuesday in her ruling dismissed the bail application filed by his lawyer, Emmanuel Ukaegbu and ordered Akuma to be transferred and remanded at the correctional centre. The matter was therefore adjourned to April 23, 2021, for continuation of trial.
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