Olamilekan Bashiru, an Ogun state-based journalist who was recently released from prison, is severely ill and has turned to his associates to raise funds for his treatment.

Spending 138 days at the Ibara facility of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Mr Bashiru was arrested by the State Security Service (SSS) in May after his website republished a story that detailed the criminal records of the state’s governor, Dapo Abiodun.

Although Mr Bashiru was granted bail by Abeokuta’s Division of the Federal High Court on June 21, the conditions, which included N3 million bail bond, and two senior civil servants as sureties, were very stringent and could not be met by his associate. The bail condition, according to his lawyer, Festus Ogun, was a deliberate effort to prolong his incarceration.

While in SSS detention and after his transfer to prison, Mr Bashiru was repeatedly tortured and held in inhumane conditions, deprived of sleep, clean water and other basic needs for human survival, Peoples Gazette learnt.

Upon his release on Wednesday, he was diagnosed with malaria, severe typhoid and other infections.

“His health condition worsens by the minute, and the family has already spent much on the case with almost no resource left to take care of him,” Festus Afofun, a close associate of Mr Bashiru, told The Gazette.

Racoon:
DSS hands are not clean @ all. BH terrorists invaded Kuje Prison effortlessly and release their colleagues without the DSS having an Intel on the planned attack.
But to harass innocent people, they will be flexing muscle.

GodsOwnMan:
Want your future to be like lagos or Anambra or Adamawa? Like for lagos share Fõr Anambra and quote for Adamawa.

Note I’m compiling some data

lhordspy:


Stop saying what you dont know on a public forum with over 7m+ viewer as this. It makes you sound very ignorant and off-reality. You are embarrassing yourself.

Dss warned of the attack on kuje prison. The Correctional service confirmed this themselves. But they only said it took long before the intel could reach them, and before they could mobilize themselves and alert the security guiding the place it was late.

That was solely on the Correctional service, DSS did their work.

The correctional service even confirmed afterward that they received another intel on Nasarawa prison to be attacked. But this time, it got to them fast, and they were able to curtail and manage the situation.

Dont rely all on only AIT, and na!raland for your news and Start making allegations up and down. Make findings before you talk trash.