Bail application: Sowore brought to court in handcuffs (photos)

Publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, was brought to the Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, in handcuffs on Tuesday, January 5, for a hearing on his bail application.

On Monday, January 4, Omoyele was arraigned alongside four others on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, unlawful assembly and incitement. The Magistrate, Mabel Segun-Bello, had ordered the remand of the defendants at the Kuje correctional centre. 

Sowore and his co-defendants were brought to the court at about 10:28am with a handcuff on his hand.

The court is yet to approve or deny his bail application.