{"id":65432,"date":"2025-05-07T14:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65432"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:14:59","slug":"outrage-as-verydarkman-remains-in-custody-despite-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/07\/outrage-as-verydarkman-remains-in-custody-despite-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as VeryDarkMan Remains in Custody Despite Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Controversy is mounting over the continued detention of outspoken activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, despite claims by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he has been granted administrative bail.<\/p>\n<p>Otse\u2019s lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, said the legal team has repeatedly attempted to retrieve the official bail documents from the EFCC without success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears to be bail only in words, not in action,\u201d Adeyanju said in a public statement, raising concerns about transparency and due process.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC spokesman Dele Oyewale confirmed Otse\u2019s arrest, citing multiple petitions of financial misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>He said the activist had ignored several formal invitations and insisted that the Commission acted within the law with a valid remand order.<\/p>\n<p>Oyewale dismissed claims that the arrest was retaliation for Otse\u2019s frequent criticisms of the agency on social media, saying, \u201cThis is not about vendetta. It is about credible allegations that must be investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, protests have erupted in Abuja, with supporters, legal advocates, and political voices like Peter Obi demanding Otse\u2019s immediate release and condemning the EFCC&#8217;s handling of the case as heavy-handed and opaque.<\/p>\n<p>The legal team maintains that unless the bail terms are officially disclosed, the move undermines confidence in Nigeria\u2019s justice system and raises questions about rights and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Controversy is mounting over the continued detention of outspoken activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, despite claims by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he has been granted administrative bail. Otse\u2019s lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, said the legal team has repeatedly attempted to retrieve the official bail documents from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65435,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65432\/revisions\/65435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}