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By Rasaq Adebayo
The 12 aides of Yoruba embattled activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, were on Wednesday granted bail by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The presiding Judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, delivering the ruling on the application filed by the 12 applicants before the court, said it was clear that no charge had been brought against Sunday Igboho’s aides since their arrest by the Department of State Service (DSS).
Hence, the court held that detaining them without charging them contravenes the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act and their fundamental rights.
Eight of the applicants, the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th applicants, were granted bail in the sum of N5 million each with surety in like sum resident in Abuja.
The remaining four applicants, the 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 12th applicants, were granted bail in the sum of N10 million each with two sureties in like sum also resident in Abuja.
The conditions for admitting the four applicants to bail include: -that one of the two sureties must be a Federal Government employee not below grade level 12.
-that the two sureties must also present evidence of three years’ tax payment and the document of their property must be verified by the DSS and the court.
The court ruled that the 12 applicants would remain in the custody of the DSS pending the perfection of all conditions for their bail.
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, but Justice Egwuatu denied to grant his prayer, saying that he had not seen any reason to grant it.
