Posted on: 05:01 Thu, 07 Jan 2016



The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Haliru Bello and his son, Abba, to the tune of N600m.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed ordered the duo to pay N300million each, as well as producebtwo sureties each, in like sum.

Whereas the court maintained that one of
the persons to stand surety for Bello must
be a Director under the employment of the
federal government or any of its agencies,
the son was asked to produce someone not below grade level 12 to stand surety for him

Besides, the court, ordered that the second
surety must be an owner of landed property in Abuja the value of which must not be below N300m, adding that the title deed of such property must be verified and surrendered to the court registrar throughout the duration of the trial.

Both sureties are to swear to an affidavit of means, as well as tender their recent
passport photographs to the court.

More so, Justice Mohammed ordered the
accused persons to surrender their
international passports to the court.

Pending the perfection of the bail terms, the court ordered that Abba should be remanded in prison custody, saying the ex-PDP boss should remain in hospital but placed under police watch.

Justice Mohammed has fixed February 16 to commence full-blown trial of the accused persons.

It will be recalled that the accused person
were on Tuesday, docked before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC.