Court grants Fayose’s aide, Agbele N50million bail

A  FCT High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday granted a N50million bail to Abiodun Agbele, an aide to Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state.

The accused is also expected to produce two sureties of the Director Cadre in the civil service.

Agbele is being prosecuted by the EFCC for allegedly buying properties for Fayose from the N1.219billion he received from a former Minister of Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro on behalf of Fayose during the build up to the Ekiti Governorship election in June 2014.

Justice Olukayode Adeniyi in a ruling on the suspect’s bail application, declared the continued detention of the suspect without being charged to court and without the backing of any competent remand order amounted to a “gross violation” of his right.

The judge held that the order of remand obtained by the EFCC‎ from a Magistrate’s Court in Ogba, Lagos, on June 30, 2016, to keep the suspect in custody for 14 days, had “dissolved” upon transferring him (Agbele) to Abuja on July 1 had elapsed and was no longer bin‎ding immediately Agbele was transferred to Abuja which was outside the jurisdiction of the Lagos court.

Though the judge ruled that he lacked territorial jurisdiction to determine whether or not the EFCC breached the suspect’s rights in Lagos before he was transferred to Abuja, Justice Adeniyi held that there was no legal justification for the detention of the suspect between July 1 and July 13, when the suspect served his fundamental human rights suit on the anti-graft commission.

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