FLASH| Haliru Bello and Son Granted N600 Million Bail

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,Haliru Bello, and his son, Abba Bello‎, in the sum of N300m with two sureties in like sum.


The court, headed by Justice Ahmed Mohammed also ordered that they should deposit their passport with the court‎ pending the determination of their trial.

Haliru Bello and his son, were arraigned by the EFCC for collecting about N300m from Col. Sambo Dasuki.


Haliru Bello is to remain under the supervision of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, at the Abuja Clinic, where he is receiving treatment for injury resulting from spinal surgery. Abba Bello is to be remanded in Kuje prison pending when both of them would meet their bail conditions.


The judge in his ruling, ordered that one of the sureties that Haliru Bello should produce must be a director in the service of the Feder‎al Government or any of its agencies and that the other surety must own property in Abuja worth the N300m bail sum.


In the case of Abba Bello, Justice Ahmed ruled that one of his sureties must be a federal civil servant not less that Grade Level 12 ‎and the other must also own property worth N300m in the Federal Capital Territory, and that title documents of the property to be presented by the sureties would be verified by court officials and surrendered to the court throughout the period the trial would last.