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The Abia State High Court sitting in Umuahia, the
state capital, has granted bail to the remaining two of the detained
nine Jewish religion worshippers arrested by the state Police Command on
May 13, 2018 around the country home of the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu, in Afara Ukwa, Umuahia North Local Council of the state.
The two accused persons were Uche Ikechukwu and Linus Njoku Ede whose applications for bail along with the earlier seven granted bail on June 11, were filed on May 15, 2018 by their counsel, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor.
Ejimakor had told the court that though the purported reason for arrest and detention are bailable, it was still the discretion of the court to grant them the bail.
The trial judge, C.C.T. Adiele, who described the purported reason for their arrest and detention as a clear case of misdirection of prosecution, said in the absence of charges against the accused persons and the fact that their bail application was not opposed by the prosecution through the state counsel, Mr. Ernest Ibelegbu, he too would not oppose their bail application.
He, therefore, granted them bail in the sum of N20,000 each on additional terms that each must produce a surety in like sum who must be resident within the court jurisdiction and produce/submit three passport photographs each.
“This is a clear abuse of the criminal justice system geared to exacting illegal incarcerations of non-convicted persons hence it should be discontinued forthwith,” the judge held.
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The two accused persons were Uche Ikechukwu and Linus Njoku Ede whose applications for bail along with the earlier seven granted bail on June 11, were filed on May 15, 2018 by their counsel, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor.
Ejimakor had told the court that though the purported reason for arrest and detention are bailable, it was still the discretion of the court to grant them the bail.
The trial judge, C.C.T. Adiele, who described the purported reason for their arrest and detention as a clear case of misdirection of prosecution, said in the absence of charges against the accused persons and the fact that their bail application was not opposed by the prosecution through the state counsel, Mr. Ernest Ibelegbu, he too would not oppose their bail application.
He, therefore, granted them bail in the sum of N20,000 each on additional terms that each must produce a surety in like sum who must be resident within the court jurisdiction and produce/submit three passport photographs each.
“This is a clear abuse of the criminal justice system geared to exacting illegal incarcerations of non-convicted persons hence it should be discontinued forthwith,” the judge held.
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