Again, court grants Dino Melaye bail
National Assembly was on Wednesday arraigned in an FCT High Court,
Apo, on a six-count charge, bordering on attempted suicide, attempt to
escape from custody and damage of police property.
Melaye who denied committing the offences, was granted bail of
N5million by Justice Silvanus Oriji.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Judge also ordered
him to produce two sureties in like sum, as part of the bail
condition.
Orji ordered that the sureties must be Directors in the civil service,
reside in the FCT, and depose to affidavits of means.
The prosecuting counsel, Dr Alex Izinyon (SAN), had told the court
that the defendant committed the alleged offences on April 24.
Izinyon stated that the defendant while being conveyed in a police
vehicle to Lokoja, forced his way out and escaped, ''He sat on the
ground, holding a substance in one hand threatening to drink it to
kill himself so that he can put the police officers in trouble''.
The prosecutor also added that the defendant broke the glass of the
vehicle with his elbow and caused damage to police property.
He said the offences contravened the provisions of Sections
148,153,173,231, 326 and 327 of the Penal Code.
The counsel to the defendant, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), had requested
the court to allow the bail granted to the defendant at the
Magistrates' Court Wuse on the same charges to
continue.
The prosecution opposed the application, adding that bail was at the
discretion of the court.
The judge upheld the submission of the prosecution and gave the new
bail conditions.
He said that the case would be assigned to another judge by the chief
judge after the vacation
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