A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, granted Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), bail in the sum of N200 million with two sureties.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu, who granted Ojerinde’s prayer after taking the arguments of counsel to the parties in the matter, said one of the sureties must be a professor in a federal university.
He said the other surety must own a landed property in Abuja, worth the bail sum.
The judge, who ruled that the sureties must produce the evidence of three- years’ tax payment, ordered that the certified true copy of the travel documents of the defendant, which were in the custody of a court in Minna, Niger state, should be obtained.
He adjourned the matter until July 22 and 23 for a hearing.
NAN reports that the ICPC in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/97/21, said that the former chief executive officer allegedly committed multiple frauds while heading JAMB and the National Examination Council (NECO).
It was also gathered that the court had, on July 6, rejected the defendant’s bail plea after taking his plea on the 18-count charge preferred against him by the anti-corruption commission.
The rejection followed the argument of counsel to the prosecution, Ebenezer Shogunle, that his application for a “temporary bail” was unknown to the law.
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