A Kwara state high court has
granted an interim bail to Yusuf Abdulwahab (pictured second right), chief of
staff to Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of the state.
Abdulwahab has been in police
custody in Abuja since June 2, 2018 after he responded to police invitation
over his alleged link with suspects who carried out robbery attacks on
commercial banks in Offa on April 5, 2018.
M.O. Adewara, a judge, freed
Abdulwahab after considering the oral application for bail made on behalf of
the governor’s aide by his counsel, Adebayo Adelodun and the response of the
counsel for the respondent, the inspector-general of police.
The chief of staff had initially
filed a motion on notice before a federal high court in Abuja praying for an
order granting him bail from police custody on the grounds that he had been
detained for longer than 24 hours allowed by law, without charge.
But the presiding judge,
Babatunde Quadri, rejected the application on the grounds that the subject
matter of the case was outside the jurisdiction of his court.
He therefore, ordered the
transfer of the case to the high court of Kwara for hearing and determination.
The case was, thereafter,
assigned to Adewara, who issued a hearing notice to the respondent, and
initially fixed hearing for Tuesday, July 17.
However, according to Adelodun,
no one represented the IG or filed any process on the said date of the hearing.
He then moved the court to grant
his client’s bail application. The court then adjourned the case till Tuesday,
July 24, for ruling.
In his ruling, the judge granted
the chief of staff bail in the sum of N10 million with two sureties each in
like sum.
The judge also ruled that the
sureties must be persons of means and should swear to an affidavit of means and
deposit to the court, their respective certificates of occupancy of house or
land located anywhere in Kwara.
He then adjourned the case till
October 15, 2018.
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