Finally! Six Students, Lecturer Of Madonna University Detained Over Facebook Post Released

Six Madonna University students and lecturer who have been held in prison for the past 5 months over comments the institutions’ management claimed was injurious to them, have been released.

The Federal High Court 2 sitting in Awka granted the students and lecturers bail yesterday.

The case was presided over by Justice Babatunde Quadri, months after security operatives picked them up and first took them to the Okija campus of the university where they were detained in a police cell before being sent to Awka Prison.

The prosecution counsel, Mr. J. N. Oboh while granting them bail, insisted that they should sign an undertaking to be of good behavior.

They were given two months to perfect their bail conditions to as the court would go on a break from next week.