Court grants Moro bail on self-recognition...

A former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, who is facing trial over alleged complicity in a N676 million job recruitment scam that led to the death of no fewer than 20 persons across the country,  has been granted bail   on self-recognition the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

As per status quo,The court seized the International passport of the ex-minister and also directed to him produce one surety each in like sum, who must not be below the level of a Director in either federal or state employment. The sureties must not only tender a letter confirming their employment, but also depose to an affidavit of means before the court. They are to also surrender the title deed of their property in any part of the country as well as two of their recent passport photographs.
Abba Moro is answering to an 11-count criminal charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, filed against him.
 Justice Anwuli Chikere, who delivered the ruling, granted Moro’s co-defendants, Mrs. Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia, who was the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Interior when the alleged fraud was committed, and a Deputy Director in the ministry, Mr. F. O Alayebami, bail to the tune of N100 million each.

 Alayebami,the 3rd defendant,is to remain in Kuje prison, up until the perfection of his bail, Justice Chikere held that the second defendant, Mrs. Daniel-Nwobia, who is a nursing mother, should remain on administrative bail until she perfected the conditions.
Justice Chikere maintained that the EFCC failed to adduce valid reasons the defendants should not be released on bail. The Judge said the essence of bail was to ensure the attendance of a defendant to face trial, saying accused persons are not to remain in prison on the basis of mere allegations.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail on self-recognition to former Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, who is facing trial over alleged complicity in a N676 million job recruitment scam that led to the death of no fewer than 20 persons across the country. The court, however, seized the International passport of the ex-minister, who is answering to an 11-count criminal charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, filed against him. Justice Anwuli Chikere, who delivered the ruling, granted Moro’s co-defendants, Mrs. Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia, who was the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Interior when the alleged fraud was committed, and a Deputy Director in the ministry, Mr. F. O Alayebami, bail to the tune of N100 million each. The duo were also directed to produce one surety each in like sum, who must not be below the level of a Director in either federal or state employment. The sureties must not only tender a letter confirming their employment, but also depose to an affidavit of means before the court. They are to also surrender the title deed of their property in any part of the country as well as two of their recent passport photographs. Whereas the 3rd defendant, Alayebami, is to remain in Kuje prison, pending the perfection of his bail, Justice Chikere held that the second defendant, Mrs. Daniel-Nwobia, who is a nursing mother, should remain on administrative bail until she perfected the conditions. Justice Chikere maintained that the EFCC failed to adduce valid reasons the defendants should not be released on bail. The Judge said the essence of bail was to ensure the attendance of a defendant to face trial, saying accused persons are not to remain in prison on the basis of mere allegations.

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The Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, Thursday, assured Nigerians that the fuel scarcity currently witnessed across the country would end by weekend. Speaking in Abuja, Managing Director of the PPMC, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, stated that right now, more than 300 trucks should be arriving in Abuja. She added that, Wednesday alone, over one thousand trucks were loaded and trucked out by oil majors and the PPMC , while about 400 intervention trucks are currently being used so as to service marketers and also ensure fuel supply in their filling stations, especially in Abuja and Lagos where they consume about 60 per cent of daily national consumption figures. She said, “We have people trucking out fuel from Port Harcourt, Warri, Oghara, Calabar as alternative sources for Lagos. So, all efforts are being made to ensure that by weekend, all these would be a thing of the past. “We have our staff all over, monitoring to make sure that the volumes brought in are actually discharged. In most of the major or strategic stations, they are selling fuel twenty-four hours, which is throughout the day so that the situation is effectively brought to normalcy.”

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