EFCC releases blogger Abusidiq after more than 24 hours in detention

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released Abubakar Sidiq, a political blogger, after more than 24 hours in detention.

Abubakar Sidiq

 Michael Bello, Sidiq’s lawyer, confirmed this to our correspondent on Tuesday. “We can confirm he (Sidiq) has just been released,” he said. “We applied for a variation of his bail condition, and they obliged us.  We had to get someone. I cannot disclose the identity of the person, but he in the service.”

Asked if his client was told to report back to the office of the anti-graft agency, Bello said: “For now, he has not been asked to come back or to report back at any other day.” Sidiq was arrested in his home at Kubwa, Abuja by operatives of the EFCC on Monday.

The EFCC had claimed that he was arrested for cyber stalking, a claim that irked many Nigerians on social media who called for his immediate release.