Young man freed after 10 months in prison for allegedly sending resignation text to boss
A 26-year-old man, Nicholas regains his freedom after spending 10 months in a prison, for allegedly sending a resignation text to his boss.
This was reported by @thefunkeadeoye, a human rights activist, who shared the post on her X page.
It was gathered that the young man, a graduate and a photographer was working as a photographer before deciding to resign his role.
According to @thefunkeadeoye he sent his boss a text resigning his role from the studio.
It was reported that his boss was upset with the content of his text message and decided to get him arrested.
Subsequently, he was charged with ‘intentional insult’ and locked up in a cell.
He was granted bail of N100K, which was later slashed to N50K; however, the sum couldn’t be paid and the young man remain in jail until a social justice organization, ‘Hope Behind Bars’ were notified of the man’s situation.
@thefunkeadeoye said …
“This is Nicholas. A 26 year old graduate, photographer & Keyboardist.
Sometime in October 2023, Nicholas sent a text message to his boss resigning his role as a photographer in the photo studio.
His boss was angry at the content of the text message & got him arrested.
From spending 2 days in police detention, he ended up being charged for “intentional insult”, locked up & up in a room with 189 other cell mates at a prison in Keffi because he could not afford the bail sum initially N100,000 & later N50,000.
He remained there even after the said boss, a politician in the current administration & owner of a popular photography studio in FCT wrote a letter to the court withdrawing the charge.
Two weeks ago, someone hinted
@hopebehindbar
about Nicholas plight and
@thehassanian
reached out to a friend of his who donated N50,000 anonymously.
The first picture is a picture of Nicholas 2 months before prison, second is a picture of him when we got him out last week and the third is a picture of him at
@hopebehindbar
office today.”
