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The Federal Capital Territory Excessive Court docket in Abuja has refused the bail software of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, who has been within the custody of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).
Justice Maryann Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory Excessive Court docket on Tuesday rejected the bail of the embattled former Kogi governor.
The decide stated that as of twenty second of November when the appliance was filed, the first defendant was not in custody.
“Why was the appliance filed when the first defendant was not in custody. The implication of that is the jurisdiction of the court docket was invoked too early,” the decide stated.
Having been filed when the circumstances weren’t current the moment software was prematurely filed.
The court docket subsequently agreed with the prosecution that the movement was incompetent.
“The movement for bail filed by the first defendant is accordingly struck out,” the court docket dominated.
The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) counsel, Dr Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, had vehemently countered the bail software, citing the antics of the previous governor who has been operating from pillar to put up.
Yahaya Bello had earlier pleaded “not guity” to the 16 counts cost introduced towards him by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee on the Federal Excessive Court docket.
His case had been adjourned to December 10 for the studying of his bail software. He was to stay with the EFCC.
Bello, who served as governor from 2016 to 2023, faces prices associated to the mismanagement of state funds, in addition to accusations of embezzlement and abuse of workplace.
Earlier in November, The Bureau Newspaper reported that the EFCC had filed recent prices towards former governor, Bello, accusing him of N110 billion fraud.
The EFCC had initially filed 19 prices towards the previous Kogi governor, alongside together with his nephew Ali Bello, Dauda Suliman, and Abdulsalam Hudu, for cash laundering offences amounting to N80,246,470,088.88.
Within the recent prices dated September 25, the full quantity concerned is N110,446,470,89.00.
The Federal Capital Territory Excessive Court docket, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, had dismissed the oral bail functions of Abdulsalam Hudu and Umar Oricho, who’re co-defendants of Yahaya Bello within the N110.4billion fraud case most well-liked once more them by the EFCC.
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