{"id":188863,"date":"2020-01-28T17:41:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=188863"},"modified":"2020-01-28T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:42:14","slug":"court-reduces-mainas-bail-conditions-to-n500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=188863","title":{"rendered":"Court reduces Maina\u2019s bail conditions to N500m"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, varied the bail conditions of Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT).<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that Justice Okon Abang, who gave the ruling, admitted Maina to bail condition in the sum of N500 million with a surety in like sum who must be a serving senator.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ruled that the surety, who should not have a criminal case pending in any court, must have a landed property fully developed in either Maitama, Asokoro, Katampe or Central Business Districts of Abuja with certificate of occupancy attached as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Abang also ruled that the senator though would always come to the court at every adjourned date, the lawmaker only needed to come and sign a court register that would be opened at the registry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the registrar must sight the surety before going back to attend his legislative proceedings,\u201d he ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Justice Abang had noted that with the facts placed before the court, the application of the defendant ought not to have been granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in the past few adjournments, I watched the conduct of the defendant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is calm and has not interrupted the proceedings of the court. Maybe he has realised that the court is bound to do justice in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am inclined, though, reluctantly to vary the bail conditions in this matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that Justice Abang had, on Nov. 26, admitted Abdulrasheed Maina to bail in the sum of N1 billion.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, varied the bail conditions of Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT). NAN reports that Justice Okon Abang, who gave the ruling, admitted Maina to bail condition in the sum of N500 million with a surety in like sum who must be a serving senator. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188864,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[2658,1441],"class_list":["post-188863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-a","tag-abdulrasheed-maina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188863","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=188863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}