Court grants Okorocha’s bail, asks him to submit travel documents
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the former Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha who is in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) custody over an alleged 2.9bn fraud.
Justice Inyang Ekwo who granted the bail on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 asked Okorocha to pay a sum of N500,000,000 and with a surety in the same amount.
He was barred from traveling out of the country except with the express permission of the court.
The judge ordered the Senator representing Imo West in the National Assembly to deposit his traveling passport with the court registrar.
In addition, the judge ordered that Immigration must be alerted in writing by the court registrar that Okorocha’s traveling passport is with the court, and as such, must not be allowed to move out of the country.
The former governor, who is a presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC) was arrested on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
His bail plea had earlier being rejected for him to attend the APC’s presidential primaries which was earlier scheduled to hold between May 29 to May 30, 2022, before being postponed to Monday, June 6 to Wednesday, June of 8, 2022.
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