Court Grants Bail To 12 Aides Of Sunday Igboho

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the 12 aides of Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho.

 

Delivering the ruling on the application filed by the 12 applicants before the court, the presiding Judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, said it is clear that no charge has been brought against Sunday Igboho’s aides since their arrest.

 

Egwuatu held that no charge has been preferred against the applicants who have been in the custody of the respondent since 2nd July.

 

He said every person shall be entitled to personal liberty and when a person is accused of an offense or is brought before the court such person is entitled to bail.

 

8 out of the 12 applicants were admitted to bail in the sum of N5million each with 2 sureties in like sum who must be resident in the FCT.

 

4 of the applicants whom the respondent had opposed to their bail application were admitted to bail in the sum of N10miion each with 2 sureties in like sum who must be civil servant

 

 

The 12 applicants are however to remain the custody of the DSS until they are able to perfect all conditions for their bail.

 

Although counsel to the applicants, Pelumi Olajengbesi had prayed the court to grant an order for them to be moved to a Police facility, experiencing fear of a possible manhandling by the DSS, Justice Egwuatu refused to grant the prayer as he said he had not seen any reason to grant it.

 

 

 

The aides were arrested when DSS officials raided Igboho’s home on July 1, but a lawyer to the apprehended aides, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has sued on grounds that their fundamental human rights were being infringed on.

 

The DSS earlier on Monday, August 2 presented eight instead of the 12 arrested aides.