By our reporter| The Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Binta Nyako on Wednesday refused to grant the bail applications filed by kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, aka Wadume, and six others.
In a ruling on the defendants’ applications, Justice Nyako ordered them to be immediately moved from the custody of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the police to prison in Kuje, Abuja.
The judge while emphasing that the defendants’ must be moved to the prison on Wednesday, said she saw no reason granting them bail while she was already giving the case an accelerated hearing.
She also ordered that the defendants must be availed access to medical facility and allowed to have access to their lawyers while in prison.
Wadume was first arrested in Ibi, Taraba State, on August 6, 2019, by policemen from the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of the Police office for a kidnap case in which he was said to have demanded N106m as ransom.
But while he was being conveyed from Ibi to Abuja, an army of 10 soldiers led by Captain Tijjani Balarabe shot at them, killing three of the policemen to free Wadume from custody.
He was later rearrested for interrogation before he was charged along with others in February this year.
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