Activist Omoyele Sowore has rejected bail conditions imposed by police operatives at the Force Intelligence Department (FID) on Monday.
Sowore was interrogated by the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of the FID, Dasuki Galandachi, at the Intelligence Bureau on Monday over a video he posted alleging that the police on Airport Road in Lagos engage in extortion.
In the video, some police operatives stopped his vehicle and asked him to park, but Sowore vehemently refused.
He posted the video with the caption, “Operation Resist @PoliceNG extortion on Nigerian highways! #RevolutionNow”.
At the FID, Sowore said he refused to pen a written statement.
“The Police relied on a rehashed set of information sourced mostly from the internet. When I asked them to identify the location of the alleged crime in Lagos, they provided a vague response, stating that it was along the airport road,” Sowore said on X.
“I chose not to provide a written statement, as we informed the Police team that in the absence of a defined crime, the process to determine such was unnecessary.”
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At exactly 12:42 on Monday, he announced that Galandachi informed him that he would be granted bail.
“The DIG of FID, Dasuki Galandachi, at the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja, had just informed me that he has instructed his personnel to grant me bail, pending the conclusion of the ‘investigation.”
In response, Sowore told Galandachi that he would not agree to bail conditions that would compromise his integrity and would rather remain in detention and be charged to court.
“I have also advised the DIG that in accepting bail’, I will not agree to conditions that compromise my innocence, dignity and integrity,” he said.
“If such unreasonable conditions are imposed, I will choose to remain in detention until I am charged to court; even then, I know that there is no crime defined or to be investigated.”
He accused the police of impunity.
He was also ordered to deposit his international passport and provide a level 17 civil servant as a guarantor for bail, but he declined the conditions and opted to remain in police custody
