A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, and presided over by Justice Simon Amobeda, has denied journalist, Agba Jalingo, bail.

Jalingo was arraigned on September 25, 2019 on four count charges of treasonable felony, terrorism and attempt to topple the Cross River State Government after 34 days in police custody.

Justice Amobeda, who also threw out the preliminary objection of the prosecution counsel, held that the charges were grave with one carrying a capital punishment.

He also said that one of the grounds for which bail was applied for was health and there was no substantial evidence to prove that his health was failing.

Jalingo was arrested and is being prosecuted for publishing a report exposing how Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River approved and immediately diverted N500m meant for Cross River State Microfinance bank.

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Attempt to topple state govt? This is ridiculously ridiculous

FarahAideed:
Attempt to topple state govt? This is ridiculously ridiculous

Utterly ridiculous..Ayade and Buhari are in the same whatsapp group...Dictators everywhere

He who wants to grow big teeth must ensure that he has sufficient lips to cover it up.

treasonable felony, terrorism, terrorism and attempt to topple the Cross River State Government for one person
what do the charged bokoharam the army arrested?
Oh my my.. whats going on in my country

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Let's join hands to applaud this current government for a job well done in trying to gag the media.


Buhari is leading the way, and others are gladly following... Till it becomes a norm to imprison anybody who dares report or criticize the government.




Nigeria can never get it right again, with the present type of youths and politicians we have.

That's serious

As I dey like this, naija matter tire me

Bail is not for every body, except you have strong man at the top. But what do jalingo find in cross river. You never see something.

Gbese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Am loving this new trend of holding people accountable for their nonsense incitefull statements, yes there is press freedom and freedom of speech, but the moment you feel like you can wake up one day to accuse someone of rape just for blackmail for money, or post libelous false hood about someone with high reputation, then you should be ready to defend your statesment in court or get severely purnished if it was a lie

Since Osinbajo Threantened to sue Vanguard and Timi Frank, other newspapers have cautioned themselve so that PDP dont put them to doom, and timi frank as ran to dubai


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Topple a state government?
As in stage a coup to overthrow a state government
I HAVE HEARD ENOUGH,I am following Musa back to Katsina.

africans

greedy, desperate and power-hungry

Why not simply sentence him arbitrarily since you are convinced he wants to topple a govt. by writing articles instead of denying bail? Why continue to waste Judicial time since you believe he is already guilty before trial.

Our political elites across board are gradually becoming tyrants. The kind of nonsense charges they now bring against citizens who criticizes their actions is laughable. What the fvck is “treasonable felony, terrorism and attempt to overthrow the government of Cross River state”.

We are gradually turning our democracy to a joke and it is regrettable. This is not the democracy we fought for. Governor Ayade and his PDP cretins must withdraw these silly charges immediately.

Yanu

Is the seat of the governor of cross rivers state the seat of the president
How will he take over power
Smh

Jalingo, you see your life?!

During the time of Jonathan, you were the butterfly feeling like an eagle, running your mouth anyhow...

The government you helped in bringing in should intervene to save your bacon...

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The new trend it seems is that if government does not like ones face or the agitation they champion, they will simply arrest the person and slam treason/terrorism charges on him knowing fully well that this will keep the person in detention a long time, and even they are lucky to get bail and fulfil it, it will come stringent conditions that will render you useless

They did with Nnamdi Kanu, Sowore and now, Agba Jalingo.

FarahAideed:
Attempt to topple state govt? This is ridiculously ridiculous

You couldn't have put it any better!!

Toppling a State government in a Federal Republic.

Abeg lawyers, where una dey? I no sabi book o!

their aim is to silence all criticism so as to have full autonomy to their looting and tyranny.

A PDP governor is doing this and the PDP spokesman is nowhere to be found, if it's an APC governor, the whole cyberspace would have now been filled with shouts of Apc gagging and threatening the judiciary, threatening democracy and FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Nigertrack:
That's serious

That's preposterous!

Sorry man

terrorism ?

Do you know why this case is not trending, the arrest was from the people that ruled for 16 ....., and not related to mallam and Baba.

Dey really don't know what their priorities should be

While Boko Haram members are being granted bail and absorbed into the Army



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