The Code of Conduct Tribunal has granted N20 million bails to two former Kaduna State Government officials: Ja’afaru Ibrahim Sani, a former Commissioner for the Environment and Natural Resources in the administration of Governor Nasir El-Rufai; and Lawal Adebisi JImi, a former Senior Adviser and Counsellor to El-Rufai between 2015 and 2023.
Both former officials of the Kaduna State Government granted bails of N10 million each, with a demand to provide two sureties each.
They were arraigned at the Tribunal on separate nine-count charges of false asset declaration by omitting and refusing to declare some of their bank accounts, together with them maintaining bank accounts outside Nigeria, among others.
The Chairman of CCT, Danladi Umar, presided over the court sitting on Wednesday, with two other judges of the Tribunal: Hon. Agwadza W. Atedze and Hon. Juliet A. Anobor.
PRNigeria reports that the defendants pleaded not guilty after the charges were read out to them, with their legal counsels pleading for them to be granted bail on self-recognition.
The defence counsels argued that Lawal was served a notice of his appearance in court on Wednesday morning, while Ja’afaru Sani is not in a stable condition for arraignment in the court as he was recently bereaved.
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However, the prosecution counsel objected to the bail request orally, insisting that a written application ought to have been filed at the Tribunal by lawyers of the defendants.
In granting the ex-officials of the Kaduna State Government bail on liberal terms, Umar adjourned hearing of the two cases till January 14 and 15 and 20 and 21, 2025.
He advised the defendants to be in court all through the period of their trials.
By PRNigeria.
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