A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered that whistleblower Isaac Bristol Tamunobifiri aka PIDOM should be remanded in Kuje correctional facility.
The police arraigned PIDOM before Justice Emeka Nwite on a nine-count charge of money laundering, cybercrime, and unlawfully obtaining, retaining and disseminating classified secret documents.
PIDOM pleaded not guilty to all the charges. Thereafter, his lawyer Deji Adeyanju applied for bail.
Justice Nwite adjourned till September 23 to rule on the bail application. PIDOM will remain in custody till then.
He is accused of mobilising and soliciting support to unduly compel the government to act or abstain from certain acts through the #EndBadGovernance protest, false money-laundering allegations against President Bola Tinubu and unlawfully obtaining, retaining and disseminating classified secret documents in contravention of the official Secret Act 1962.
In the money laundering allegations brought against him, the police claimed that the funds PIDOM obtained were derived from unlawful activities.
The police said PIDOM tried to tamper with evidence by destroying his Tecno Phantom X phone and attempting to flush it down the water system of the hotel where he was arrested on August 5.
