{"id":211428,"date":"2022-08-21T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=211428"},"modified":"2022-08-21T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T07:00:39","slug":"police-release-journalist-agba-jalingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/21\/police-release-journalist-agba-jalingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release journalist Agba Jalingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police in Abuja have released the publisher of Cross River Watch, Agba Jalingo, who was arrested at his residence in Lagos on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters who shared a video of Mr Jalingo\u2019s release on his Facebook page Saturday night, said the FCT police command granted bail to the journalist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll be back on Monday. We will never allow impunity to thrive in our country,\u201d Mr Sowore said.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Hundeyin, the police spokesperson in Lagos State, had confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/20\/police-confirm-arrest-of-agba-jalingo-in-lagos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr Jalingo was arrested<\/a> by the police from Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact they brought him to our facility in Lagos before going to Abuja,\u201d Mr Hundeyin, a Superintendent of Police, had said.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/20\/falana-demands-release-of-agba-jalingo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demanded Mr Jalingo\u2019s \u201cunconditional release<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jalingo, the publisher of Cross-River Watch, was arrested in August 2019 for accusing the Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, of diverting N500 million belonging to the state.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with terrorism, treasonable felony, and cybercrime, and incarcerated for about 179 days, despite global outrage against the action.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2021, the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja ordered the federal government to pay the publisher N30 million as compensation for his ill-treatment and torture while in detention.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2022, a Federal High Court in Calabar, dismissed the terrorism, treasonable felony, and cybercrime charges against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police in Abuja have released the publisher of Cross River Watch, Agba Jalingo, who was arrested at his residence in Lagos on Friday. 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