{"id":80536,"date":"2025-12-19T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80536"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:11:10","slug":"court-dismisses-malamis-bail-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/19\/court-dismisses-malamis-bail-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Dismisses Malami\u2019s Bail Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Federal Capital Territory High Court has dismissed an application seeking the release of former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n<p>In a ruling delivered on Tuesday, the court held that Malami failed to establish that his detention was illegal or unconstitutional, describing the application as lacking merit.<\/p>\n<p>Malami, who has been in EFCC custody for about 10 days, is under investigation over alleged financial impropriety involving recovered funds and suspected links to terrorist financing.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was earlier granted administrative bail on November 28, he was re-arrested on December 8 after honouring an invitation for further interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>Malami claimed his bail was arbitrarily revoked following his attendance at a political rally in Kebbi State, a claim the EFCC denied, insisting he failed to meet bail conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In his suit, filed through his counsel, Dr. Sulaiman Hassan (SAN), Malami sought enforcement of his fundamental human rights, arguing that his continued detention was unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>However, the EFCC, represented by Chief Jubrin Okutepa (SAN), told the court that Malami\u2019s detention was backed by a valid court order issued by Justice Sylvanus Oriji of a court of coordinate jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Babangida Hassan ruled that granting the reliefs sought would amount to the court sitting on appeal over a court of equal jurisdiction, which it lacked the powers to do.<\/p>\n<p>Malami has denied the allegations, describing the investigation as politically motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata A Federal Capital Territory High Court has dismissed an application seeking the release of former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a ruling delivered on Tuesday, the court held that Malami failed to establish that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80538,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80536\/revisions\/80538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}