The publisher of Cross River Watch, Agba Jalingo, has been sent to prison for alleged ‘cybercrime”.
Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, on Monday, shared a video on his Twitter handle with the caption “Justice Zainab Bage Abubakar of the Federal High Court in Abuja just sent journalist @agbajalingo_ to Kuje prison for “cybercrime” she denied his lawyers the opportunity to move a motion for bail after he was arraigned for cyberstalking.”
Jalingo was arrested in August 2019 for accusing the Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, of diverting N500 million belonging to the state.
He was charged with terrorism, treasonable felony, and cybercrime, and incarcerated for about 179 days.
On February 14, Jalingo wrote an article titled “The Nigeria Police Should Leave Me Alone,”
“For the past 25 years, I’ve been unfairly moving from one court to another in Nigeria in criminal trials for crimes I never committed. Not once have I been convicted of any crime and not once have I ran away from my trial. I doubt if I even have any record of missing a court date even when I had to travel for hundreds of miles to get to court,” the article read in part.
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