Emefiele Gets Court Order To Serve DSS His Bail Order

Mr Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  has been granted leave to serve the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi, the court order admitting him to bail.

GWG.ng reports that the order was given on Monday by Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High sitting in Lagos following his earlier order on July 25 that Emefiele should be remanded in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service pending his fulfilment of bail conditions. The bail was put at N50 million.

The order followed an ex-parte application moved by Emefiele’s counsel, Ogonnaya Sonuga.

Emefiele had earlier been arraigned on two counts of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.

The charges bordered on alleged possession of a single barrel shotgun, as well as possession of 123 rounds of live ammunition without a licence.

However, following the bail granted him the DSS immediately rearrested him within the court premises.

In an ex-parte application dated July 28, Emefiele challenging his continued incarceration, Emefiele through his lawyers asked the court for “an order of this Honourable Court granting leave to the Defendant/Applicant to serve the Complainant through and on the office and person of the Director General Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi with the Ruling/Order of Court obtained on the 25th day of July 2023 admitting the defendant/Applicant to bail and directing his remand in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service by substituted means to wit: by publishing same in Three (3) National Daily Newspapers Circulating within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court and which said service will be deemed as good and proper service on the Prosecutor/Complainant herein”- Daily Trust Newspaper. – Punch Newspaper. -Thisday Newspaper.

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