{"id":115463,"date":"2019-05-09T23:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115463"},"modified":"2019-05-09T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:32:12","slug":"court-grants-prime-suspect-in-sugars-murder-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115463","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants ‘Prime Suspect’ In Sugar’s Murder Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAn Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has granted bail to the alleged prime suspect in the March 9 murder of Temitope Olatoye ( aka Sugar).<\/p>\n

The court took the decision on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Sugar, defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Action Democratic Party(ADP) in the build-up to the 2019 general election.<\/p>\n

He was a member of theFederal House of Representatives legislating on behalf of Lagelu\/Akinyele constituency.<\/p>\n

He was cut down in a hail of bullets in one of the polling units in his consistuency during the governorship and house of assembly elections<\/p>\n

His body was committed to Mother earth on Friday in Ibadan, the state capital.<\/p>\n

It was gathered that about five suspects, including a serving member of the state House of Assembly from Akinyele, Olafisoye Akinmoyede were arrested in connection with his murder.<\/p>\n

The suspects were taken to Abuja and kept ‘under protective custody’<\/p>\n

But Akinmoyede through his counsel, Michael Lana approached Justice Moshood Abass and sought to enforce the fundamental human rights of the house whip, over prolonged detention.<\/p>\n

Akinmoyede, through his counsel, urged the court to grant him bail as his continued detention is a unlawful and gross violation of his fundmental human rights.<\/p>\n

Lana urged the court to grant bail to his client pending the arraignment of his client at the court of law.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the counsel for the respondent, the Commissioner of Police, was absent at the hearing.<\/p>\n

The presiding judge, Justice Abass, said that he considered the action of the police as arrogant, unlawful and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Abass said that all actions of the police must be seen to have justification in law and the fundamental right of the applicant must not be restrained by any technicality.<\/p>\n

The judge said that the practice of the police making an arrest before an investigation was not proper.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power of the police to arrest and detain is not in doubt but the constitution stipulates that any person detained must be arraigned within 24hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe remand order obtained by the police from an Iyaganku Magistrate court had expired since April 4 and detaining the applicant beyond this period is flagrant disobedient to the<\/p>\n

constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cObedient to court order should be the responsibility of all who believe in the stability of Nigeria,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n

The judge faulted the police on their inability to provide justification to deny the applicant bail.<\/p>\n

In his ruling, the judge held that the applicant should be granted bail with a surety who is blood relation with landed property worth N50 million among others.<\/p>\n

The judge said that the other surety should be a civil servant with grade level 14 or member of the state House of Assembly or Federal.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has granted bail to the alleged prime suspect in the March 9 murder of Temitope Olatoye ( aka Sugar). The court took the decision on Thursday. Sugar, defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Action Democratic Party(ADP) in the build-up to the 2019 general […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}