Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos State High Court, sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, on Friday rejected the bail application of Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate, Frederick Nwajagu, who is being prosecuted over alleged terrorism.

The vacation judge held that the court was constrained to refuse the bail application based on the seriousness of the offence and the severity of its punishment.

Nwajagu is standing trial on a nine-count charge bordering on an attempt to commit acts of terrorism, financing terrorism, participating in terrorism, and meeting to support a proscribed entity.

The defendant had on July 25, 2023, applied for bail, citing his medical reports, adding that he was not a flight risk.

At the resumed hearing, of the case on Friday the court declined the defendant’s bail application and ordered for an accelerated hearing.

Justice Adesanya held, “Based on the seriousness of the offence, the severity of the punishment, and the proof of evidence before the court, the court is constrained to refuse the bail application.

“The application for an accelerated hearing is hereby granted”.

The judge, however, directed the correctional facility officials to make arrangements for the defendant to visit a Government hospital for his treatment.

She adjourned the hearing until October 3, 2023.

On the last adjourned date, counsel to the defendant, Mr. E. C. Obiagu (SAN), had prayed the court to grant bail to the defendant on grounds of his medical condition.

He also told the court that the defendant was a widower who had six children who he would not abandon, therefore would not jump bail.

Obiagu claimed that the defendant does not possess an international passport, therefore, was not a flight risk.

The defence counsel also said that the defendant was granted bail at the lower court but was not able to perfect the bail due to its stringent condition.

In his response the Lagos state, Deputy Director for Public Prosecutions, Jonathan Ogunsanya, however, urged the court to refuse the defendant’s bail.

He then begged the court to order an accelerated hearing.

Ogunsanya said among other things that the circumstances under which the defendant was granted bail at the lower court was different from the information filed against him at the high court.

He contended that the charge brought against the defendant by the police are materially different from the charge brought against the defendant by the attorney general.

The Lagos state Government had in a suit No: LD/21505C/2023, alleged that the defendant’s acts contravened Section 403(2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The state noted that the offences also contravened Sections 12(a) (c), 18, 21, and 29 of the Terrorism (Prevention & Prohibition) Act, 2022.

Nwajagu was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services over an alleged threat to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra to Lagos to secure properties of Igbo people in the state.

https://punchng.com/alleged-terrorism-court-refuses-to-grant-lagos-eze-ndigbo-bail/

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Nice one. Very soon Charley boy cup will full

When l see some Stupid one Nigerian Igbos, l feel like laying course on them with their politicians. A man threathened Igbos brandishing AK47 by the name of Asari, he us walking free while an Eze is being sent to prison just for asking for protection from IPOB.

Shame on Ohaneze ndi oshi

Proverbs 12:18 and Proverbs 18:12

Hmmmmmm!!!!!!!

He should be man enough to own up to his criminal actions. The video is all over the internet and speaks for itself! When you beat your chest it must be with the knowledge of your brain!

Good

Those who might want to make another provocative statement in the future will definitely have a re think

make the ipob he wan bring come lagos go rescue am from prison

Good.

They should hang him instead of wasting Lagos money feeding him.

If he’s in the Sad East, UGM go don kill a since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MRuCnn8VV4

O pari. Trouble dey sleep, yanga go wake am.

He was openly threatening to unleash an outlawed group on Lagos after the coordinated arson Lagos experienced from the outlawed group in 2020. An Agbalagba who is doing langbalangba. smh

Is it that he didn't see this evidence that linked the outlawed group to the coordinated arson in Lagos ni?

Evidence Below

Kanu ordered IPOB to burn down Lagos on live Radio knowing fully well that the fake Lekki Massacre was a Hoax because he and IPOB had deliberately helped to distribute the fake news on Social Media in order to create an excuse to murder Police and attack lagos


AUTHENTIC audio below are nnamdi kanu's orders to ipob on live Radio during endsars Protests

1hr 35Mins
Destroy every bridge and kill all Police

1hr 46 mins
burn down tinubu’s hotel

1 hr 42 min
Burn down Nitel building and all Govt buildings in lagos, burn down Muritala Mohammed Airport

1hr 39 min kanu orders IPOB to Kill Army Officers and manufacture Weapons

1hr 47 min tinubu must go down

1hr 52 min
kanu Confirmed information that Cele and Orile police Stations In lagos are on fire and Is delighted

Orders ipob to use green white green and blood as the Nigerian flag.

Tells ipob to target tinubu and Sanwo Olu and their Children

1 hr 56 min
block every road kill Sabotuers

2hr.00 min
Destroy everything holding the Economy of Nigeria. Burn all pipelines

2.hr09 min
Kill the Army in Lekki [/b]Claims 15 people were killed in Lekki.,Set Dangote Trucks on Fire.

2.hr 15 min
[b] Burn down Every Federal Govt Building attack Police.

2hr 18 mins
Describes again how to make Molotov Cocktail bombs

2hr20min kanu asks where are the ipob People with Double barrel guns in Abuja?

2 hr 22 min
ipob will make an example of Ikpeazu and Sanwo Olu all tinubu’s nvestments should be destroyed

2hr 24min build bombs and lay them by the roadside

2 hr 32 min kill any Governor that declares Curfew

2hr 56min
kanu says tinubu’s hotel is on fire on his orders

3 hr 09 mins

burn everything tinubu owns and Dangote Trucks the war has started

Every Police Station must go down
destroy all Federal Government Property burn down Lekki Toll Gate destroy Dangote refinery burn every Pastors Church that supports one Nigeria


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktk4uXmlOLs

Flogged in Akure, jailed in Lagos: The Plights of Eze Ndigbos

Ah this Biafra man wey jamtalk the other time still dey chop beans inside

Next time for him life he go dey use sense before uttering what can give him part 2

They needed to be taught a lesson awon omo irankiran

Persecution based profiling such as this one is one reason I will always speak against state police in Nigeria.

For commiting what offence exactly?
Inequality of the highest order.
This country is doomed.

Nice one. The terrorist Eze Ndigho must rot in Jail.

Pls keep him in custody let mosquitoes dealt with him to reset his brain so next time you don't leave your land and be threatening others in their land.

zoedew:
He should be man enough to own up to his criminal actions. The video is all over the internet and speaks for itself! When you beat your chest it must be with the knowledge of your brain!

He really messed up......common sense is not common, see how his loose tongue and social chestbeating put him in cage....see how his ego is being deflected by constituted authority.

Lets be clear igbos have a good reason to want out of this country.

They are hated.

Yet the same people who hate them are scared of them leaving.

trutharena:
Good.

They should hang him instead of wasting Lagos money feeding him.

If he’s in the Sad East, UGM go don kill a since.

No my brother.
They remain our brothers, just sometimes they allow emotions and sentiment to take over them

By December, they will release him, then he would have learned his lessons

Is this man still alive. His case will serve as a lesson to his people that Lagos belongs to people.

Let me see how those that hailed him will save him.

They hailed this man here on NL, beat chest up and down but he is now suffering.

Anybody supported by ibooos is bond to suffer.

May he rot in jail

Why did this guy even release such a video when he knows that it could come back and haunt him? The powers that be will make an example out of him

Barrywilly:
They needed to be taught a lesson awon omo irankiran

Iwo ati awon babanlaku baba e ni IRANKIRAN.
Olori ibu

This one don use him mouth put himself for trouble

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech - Idi Amin

Only rich people and politicians can make this kind of statement, not you.....see how everyone has abandoned you. Next time u go think before you talk.