{"id":872,"date":"2023-07-25T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=872"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:53:00","slug":"breaking-suspended-cbn-gov-emefiele-gets-n20m-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/07\/25\/breaking-suspended-cbn-gov-emefiele-gets-n20m-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Suspended CBN Gov, Emefiele Gets N20m Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail to Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Centre Bank of Nigeria (CBN).<\/p>\n

The presiding judge, Nicholas Oweibo, in a ruling on Tuesday, granted the embattled suspended CBN governor bail in the sum of N20 million, saying the charges against are bailable.<\/p>\n

The bail was granted with one surety,\u00a0The Cable\u00a0<\/strong>reports.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Emefiele pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge bordering on alleged illegal possession of firearms preferred against him.<\/p>\n

The Court had earlier rejected the Federal Government\u2019s claim that it had not received a copy of the bail application filed by Emefiele\u00a0 in his alleged gun possession trial.<\/p>\n

Justice Oweibo held that there was evidence that the government was served.<\/p>\n

The bail application was filed by Emefiele\u2019s lawyers led by Mr. J. B. Dauda SAN.<\/p>\n

Dauda had prayed the court to hear the banker\u2019s application seeking bail on self-recognizance, noting that his client had fulfilled all the conditions necessary to make the application ripe for hearing.<\/p>\n

He noted further that the proof of service endorsed by the AGF\u2019s office was in the court\u2019s file.<\/p>\n

Dauda also urged the court to end the oppression of his client by the Department of State Security (DSS) which arrested him and hear the bail application.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere should be an end to oppression,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But the government\u2019s lawyer, a Deputy Director of Prosecution (DDPP), told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that she had \u201cnot been given the bail application. As I stand here, I have not set eyes on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emefiele is standing trial on a two-count charge which accuses him of possessing a single-barrel shotgun (JOJEFF MAGNUM 8371) without a licence on June 15 at Ikoyi.<\/p>\n

The Federal Government, which is prosecuting him, maintained that the offence was contrary to Section 4 of the Firearms Act, 2004, and punishable under Section 27 (1b) of the same Act.<\/p>\n

In the second count, the suspended CBN Governor was accused of having in his possession 123 rounds of live ammunition (Cartridges) without a licence, which was contrary to Section 8 of the Firearms Act 2004 and punishable under Section 27 (1)(b)(il) of the same Act.<\/p>\n

Emefiele was brought to Court on Tuesday in a Toyota Hilux vehicle by DSS officials.<\/p>\n

Before his arrival hooded DSS operatives had taken over the court premises. Some came as early as 7am, well over two hours before Emefiele\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n

The courtroom where he is arraigned is very small and journalists were not allowed inside.<\/p>\n

But an unidentified lady court clerk came out to order journalists to stop recording but was ignored since the cameramen were not inside the courtroom.<\/p>\n

But there was calm in the environment.<\/p>\n

Emefiele was clean shaving and casually dressed and he walked by himself into the courtroom.<\/p>\n

Cable<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail to Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Centre Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The presiding judge, Nicholas Oweibo, in a ruling on Tuesday, granted the embattled suspended CBN governor bail in the sum of N20 million, saying the charges against are bailable. The bail was granted with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","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\/872","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}