Afe Babalola: Police Files 12 Additional Charges Against Dele Farotimi
The police on Friday hammered new counts of criminal maligning as a detriment for extremist Dele Farotimi, blaming him for holding a question and answer session online in which he point by point a sprouting plot to capture him.
The police said the December 2, 2024, press preparation on YouTube comprised an endeavor to menace and stigmatize Afe Babalola, a nonagenarian legal counselor on whose command Mr Farotimi was captured on Tuesday and remanded in jail following an underlying plan Wednesday.
The charges denoted the most recent heightening in a generally full case that includes fuelled division inside legitimate circles the nation over and seemed to show Mr Babalola was reluctant to retreated on a turn that many considered to be possibly harming to his heritage, particularly for its bold attack on free discourse.
Mr Farotimi had utilized the question and answer session to detail how Mr Babalola was coming after him over his book that hit stores in July 2024, in which he described how Mr Babalola, a senior legal counselor of huge political and business impact, consummated the specialty of legal banditry that crossed many years.
Mr Babalola denied all claims of paying off judges to get good decisions, as well as all charges of debasement against his individual or foundations.
Yet, his choice to include the police, who have a past filled with being utilized by the strong against regular residents, frequently after monetary or material instigation, evoked the most contempt from Nigerians, who considered the 95-year-old’s activity to be boorish and speedily escalated strain at home and abroad to inspire him to withdraw on his quest for Mr Farotimi.
Mr Farotimi was captured in Lagos on Tuesday and shipped to Ekiti hours after the fact. The police uncovered 16 counts of criminal slander as a detriment to him under the watchful eye of an adjudicator on Wednesday, and the matter was concluded for a bail hearing on December 6.
On Friday, News360 Nigeria got court reports from the police in which they evened out 13 new charges against Mr Farotimi, denouncing him, among others, of trashing Mr Babalola during an appearance on a web recording by writer Seun Okinbaloye and on his own YouTube channel.
The criminal grumbling, stamped FHC/Promotion/CR/104/2024, was addressed to Mr Farotimi, however it was hazy whether he had been filled in starting around Friday evening.
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