A Federal Capital Territory High Court
in Maitama, Abuja, on Thursday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission to release a cousin of a former President Goodluck Jonathan,
Mr. Azibaola Robert, on bail.
Justice Olasunbo Goodluck, ruling on Robert’s ex parte application ordered that the bail should be guaranteed by two sureties.
Each of the sureties must be a serving
or retired Director in any of the Federal Government’s ministries or
parastatal and must be resident within Abuja.
The applicant would also deposit his passport to the Chief Registrar of this court.
The EFCC had on March 23, arrested
Robert over an alleged diversion of $40m through a firm, One-Plus
Holdings, which a sister company of Kakatar Construction and Engineering
Company Limited, through allegedly phoney contract of securing oil
pipelines.
He was said to have received the money
from the then National Security Adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), who
is also being prosecuted for diversion of funds allegedly meant for
procurement of arms to fight insurgency.
Justice Goodluck’s ruling on the ex
parte application by Robert, through his lawyer, Chief Chris Uche
(SAN), held that the applicant’s detention by the EFCC for over two
weeks was unconstitutional.
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