{"id":221440,"date":"2024-09-27T21:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/27\/court-grants-nigerian-whistleblower-pidom-n5m-bail\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T21:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:30:46","slug":"court-grants-nigerian-whistleblower-pidom-n5m-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/27\/court-grants-nigerian-whistleblower-pidom-n5m-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants Nigerian Whistleblower PIDOM N5m Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to Isaac Bristol, identified by the police as the whistleblower behind PIDOMNigeria account on X.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that Justice Emeka Nwite, granted Bristol N5 million bail with one surety in like sum.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nwite gave the ruling in response to a motion on notice submitted by popular human right activist, Deji Adeyanju, who led PIDOMNigeria\u2019s team of lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The motion on notice is a formal request to the court to take a specific action or make a particular decision.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Adeyanju\u2019s team filed the motion, and Justice Nwite delivered a ruling, which is a judicial decision made by a judge after considering the arguments and evidence presented.<\/p>\n<p>Nwite also ruled that the defendant must deposit his passport with the court.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that the surety must be resident in Abuja and depose to an affidavit of means.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Police Charge Whistleblower PIDOM To Court On Nine Counts After 28-Day Detention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The surety must also provide evidence of three years\u2019 tax clearance with two passport-sized photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Bristol has been remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre since September 11, is standing trial for alleged treason and for mobilising and soliciting support to \u201cunduly compel\u201d the government to act or abstain from certain acts through the #EndBadGovernance protests, false money-laundering allegations against President Bola Tinubu, and unlawfully obtaining, retaining and disseminating classified secret documents in contravention of the official Secret Act 1962.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-127623945\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to Isaac Bristol, identified by the police as the whistleblower behind PIDOMNigeria account on X. 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