Sule Lamido And Sons Granted N25 Million Bail Each

The former governor and his sons are facing money laundering charges brought to the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

They were last week in Kano, arraigned and were later remanded in jail pending their bail application hearing on September 28.

The Lamido were secretly moved to Abuja’s Kuje prison as they awaited a court hearing Today, with a new judge who was assigned to consider the bail application.

The Judge, Gabriel Kolawole granted the accused, Mr Lamido and son alongside another individual  Abubakar Wada bail of around N25 million bail bond each, in addition to a requirement that they submit their travel passport to the court.

The court also asked the accused produce two sureties each, one of which must be a civil servant of grade level 16 or retired as such, or a businessman who owns a landed property not worth less that N75 million in Abuja or Jigawa state.

Also demanded from the accused was two recent passport pictures.

Kolawole announced that EFCC’s argument that the accused persons were earlier allowed administrative bail by the commission based on the fact that they were unaware of the enormity of evidences gathered by the commission, was weak.

He said that the EFCC must explain why the court could not exercise its discretion in favour of an accused person in this case.

The EFCC’s counsel had earlier signalled that their pool of evidence was so strong that the accused might look to jump bail.

As of now, the accused are yet to be released from prison as they have not met their bail condition.

The EFCC are accusing Lamido, his sons and Mr. Abubakar of using their positions to steal Jigawa state funds.

One of the reported cases was the alleged payment by construction firm, Dantata and Sawoe, who paid N1.3 billion as 10 percent kickback for contracts it won, into accounts owned by the governor and his sons.

Credit: Naij

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