Former governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku was on Thursday admitted to bail in the sum of N150 million by a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court in the alleged N27 billion fraud charge brought against him by the Federal Government.
The former governor was granted the bail by Justice Sylvanus Oriji with two sureties in the same amount. One of the two sureties must be a Federal Government employee of the rank of Director. Similarly, the two sureties must be residents in the FCT with their house addresses to be verified by the Registrar of the Court. Besides, Justice Oriji barred the former governor and his co-defendant, Bello Hero, from traveling out of the country except with the permission of the court.
The EFCC noted that the duo committed an offence contrary to Section 315 of the Penal Code A, Cap 532, Laws of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria 2007 and punishable under the same section. Ishaku and Yero were also accused of diverting an aggregate sum of N1,138,082, 097.71 which formed part of the 2.5 per cent contingency fund belonging to the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs between July 2015 and May 2019.
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