Nigerian lawyer Funke Adeoye successfully secured the release of a photographer whose employer had been jailed for resigning via text message.
Sharing the story on X, Funke explained that despite the politician and owner of a large photography studio in Abuja withdrawing the case with the police, the young man remained in custody until her team was notified and secured his release.
Her post read:-
‘’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.”
