Man spends 10 months in prison in Abuja after his boss got him arrested for sending rude resignation text to him
A man identified simply as Nicholas has just regained his freedom after spending 10 months in prison for sending a resignation text that his boss considered rude.
Nicholas, 26, was working in a studio owned by a politician currently serving in President Tinubu’s government, according to Funmi Adeoye, who exposed the incident.
Read her full post below:
“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 with “intentional insult”, locked up in a room with 189 other cellmates 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’s 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.
