* Orders remand at EFCC’s custody
CHIGOZIE AMADI
Justice Maryanne Anenih of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Wednesday adjourned till December 10, to deliver her ruling in the bail application filed by a former Governor of Kogi State, Mr Yahaya Bello.
The judge announced that her ruling in the bail application would be delivered on the said date, shortly after lawyers to Bello and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) argued for and against the grant of the bail.
Bello and two others were on Wednesday morning arraigned on a 16-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust amongst others.
Bello, Umar Shuaibu Oricha and Abdulsalami Hudu, in the charge marked: CR/7781/2024, were accused of spending over N110 billion of public funds to acquire several properties in Abuja and in Dubai.
The defendants however, pleaded not guilty to all the charges following which their lawyers moved their respective applications for bail, which were at the same time objected to by the anti-graft agency.
After taking submissions of all counsel, Justice Anenih announced that her ruling in the bail applications would be delivered on December 10.
She however ordered that the defendants be remanded in EFCC’s custody, pending the ruling.
Bello had on Tuesday surrendered to the EFCC, after several months of stalling his arraignment at the Federal High Court in Abuja, as well as the instant case.
