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Justice Ademola has been granted N50 million bail by
a Federal High Court in Abuja.
Ademola is expected to provide a bail bond of N50 million to the
federal government, the court ruled.
Although, the judge has been mandated to submit his travel
passports to the court's registrar, no surety is expected to be
provided by the arraigned judge.
During his ruling today, December 13, Justice Jude Okeke said
since the prosecution did not object to the application by the
defendant to continue enjoying an administrative baik granted to
him by the Department of State Services, the court in its
discretion will grant the defendants bail.
Okeke also urged counsels in the matter to agree on a date for
commencement of trail.
Read our earlier report below:
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court in Abuja and
his wife, Olabowale, who is the Head of Service of Lagos State
showed up in court on Tuesday, December 13 before a High
Court in Maitama, Abuja.
On sighting the photo-journalists stationed around the court
premises, Justice Ademola made sure he was not captured by
the lenses.
The situation was the same inside the courtroom as Justice
Ademola made sure his face was not captured by the photo-
journalists who tried their best to get his photo.
The couple were arraigned on charges of receiving gratification.
They are facing a 15-count charged preferred by the federal
government.
The offences against the Justice and his wife are said to have
been committed between 2014 amd 2016.
Specifically, the government alleged that Ademola and his wife,
committed offences contrary to Section 8 of the Independent
Corrupt Practices Commission Act, 2011 and Section 115 of the
Penal Code Law .
The couple allegedly received N40million between February 20
and 21, 2014 and another N30 million from Messers Joe Odey
Agi and Associates between March 11 and 26, 2015.
Justice Ademola was said to have received N30 million from Agi
who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, between March 11 and 26,
2015, with his wife who is a senior civil servant with the Lagos
state government, also pocketing another N30m from the same
source.
Justice Ademola was one of the federal high court judges
arrested by operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS)
after a raid on their homes some months back.
Meanwhile, security at the court was tightened today as the
chief judge, Justice Ishaq Bello was seen directing security
officials to search individual gaining access into the court
thoroughly.
Bello who was guarded with about 10 heavily armed police
officers said all individual including staff of the High court must
be screened.
"Make sure nobody passes through without being properly
screened, including staff," Bello said
Also as part of the new security measure, a guest register was
kept at the entrance for signing.
All visitors including journalists were mandated to sign the
register, while being monitored by a court security personnel.