Why Adoke hasn’t been released despite bail — EFCC, Lawyer
About 24 hours after an FCT high court granted bail to a former justice minister, Mohammed Adoke, theThe acting spokesperson to the commission, Tony Orilade, told PREMIUM TIMES on Friday that the ex-official is still in detention ”as he has not been able to fulfil his bail conditions”.
PREMIUM TIMES learned he met the bail conditions by Thursday evening, a few hours after he was released, and the judge signed a warrant for his release, officials familiar with the matter said. Nonetheless, Mr Adoke’s lawyers returned to court on Friday to obtain the document requested by the EFCC. ”He has fulfilled all the bail conditions. When my team of lawyers went yesterday to get him released, the EFCC told them that they needed a certified true copy of the enrolled order for his release, the certified true copy of the ruling and they needed also a formal letter from the court saying that Adoke had perfected all the bail conditions.
”So we are now looking forward till tomorrow for his release. The situation is that no one can blame the EFCC or the court. It was just the system, and the distance between Gwagwalada and the city.”Mr Kutigi, who granted the N50 million bail on Thursday, had also ruled that the former AGF provides one surety who must be resident in Abuja and who must have a landed property in the capital territory.
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