Midat Joseph, the Leadership Newspapers Bureau Chief, Kaduna
State, who was arrested on Wednesday, has been released on bail.
Joseph has been in custody of the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) for alleged inciting comment.
Joseph and one Eusebius Yayock were arrested over a comment
on a WhatApp group chat where they had contributed to a conversation to a call
for a protest against the continued killings in Southern Kaduna area of Kaduna
State.
The duo were first detained on Wednesday at the metropolitan
police station by the CID from where they were transferred to the Kaduna Police
Command Headquarters and also held over night by the CID in their Special Anti
Robbery Squad (SARS) cell from where they were charged to court for
prosecution.
The police prosecution said Joseph and Yayock had on a
Whatsapp group known as Southern Kaduna Victims Support (SKVS) made an inciting
comments with intention to cause public disturbance in Kaduna State over
alleged killing of Southern Kaduna residents contrary to section 97,114 and 393
of penal code law of Kaduna state 1991.
Counsels to Midat and the other accused person, James Kanyip
Esq and Maxwell Kyom Esq applied for their bail, which was granted by the Chief
Magistrate.
The presiding magistrate, Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Yusuf
granted Joseph and the other accused person bail each in the sum of Fifty
thousand Naira (N50,000) and a reliable and respectable surety in like sum.
He subsequently adjourned the case to the 31st May, 2017 for
continuation of hearing.
By Ameh Comrade Godwin
