{"id":77485,"date":"2025-10-26T07:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77485"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:12:47","slug":"ipob-counsel-aloy-ejimakor-collapses-in-kuje-custody-during-bail-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/26\/ipob-counsel-aloy-ejimakor-collapses-in-kuje-custody-during-bail-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"IPOB Counsel Aloy Ejimakor Collapses in Kuje Custody During Bail Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has reportedly fallen ill while in custody at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, just 24 hours after the presiding magistrate, Abubakar Umar Sai\u2019id, declined to endorse his bail bond for release.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from SaharaReporters, Ejimakor was unable to meet with his colleague, Barrister Maxwell Opara, during a scheduled legal visitation due to his deteriorating health condition.<\/p>\n<p>Opara confirmed that Ejimakor was \u201cincapacitated, unable to sit upright or stand,\u201d while nurses at the correctional centre were seen attending to him. Medical personnel are reportedly considering transferring the lawyer to a hospital for urgent treatment as his condition continues to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>Ejimakor was among 13 individuals arrested on Monday during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest in Abuja, which also included Kanu\u2019s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu. The group was allegedly tear-gassed, beaten, and detained overnight at a SARS unit known as \u2018Abattoir\u2019 before being transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>On the following day, they were brought before the Kuje Magistrate\u2019s Court without legal representation and subsequently remanded in custody. Though Magistrate Sai\u2019id granted them bail the next day, the bail bond was reportedly not signed or processed, preventing their release.<\/p>\n<p>Prison staff have described Ejimakor\u2019s health condition as \u201cdeteriorating fast,\u201d sparking growing concern among legal practitioners and human rights observers, who have called for immediate medical attention and transparency in the ongoing legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, neither the Kuje Correctional Centre nor the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Judiciary has issued an official statement regarding the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has reportedly fallen ill while in custody at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, just 24 hours after the presiding magistrate, Abubakar Umar Sai\u2019id, declined to endorse his bail bond for release. According to reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77485","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\/77485","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77487,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77485\/revisions\/77487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}