Recall that the popular lawyer and activist claimed he was given the sentence after allegedly asking that armed police officers in court be removed because he didn’t feel safe.
This is not the first of this scenario. The late Chief Gani Fawehinmi also went through this route when a judge in Lagos State sentenced him to prison for contempt.
Sharing the photo on Twitter, he wrote: “Inside van at Uyo prison waiting for the issue of custody to be determined, between Uyo or Ikot Ekpene prison. History will vindicate the just.
“They’re saying that I can’t be jailed in Uyo prison because of COVID protocol, that I have to be in Ikot Ekpene prison. Uyo prison has rejected me. We are going back to the court now for His Lordship to determine where I should be jailed. History will vindicate the just.”
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