Agba Jalingo Granted Bail

A federal high court in Calabar Thursday granted bail to the detained journalist Agba Jalingo.

Justice Sule Shuaibu granted the bail after Cross Rivers State Government reverted to the initial; charges of terrorism and conspiracy to remove elected governor from office.

This was after Justice Simon Amobeda had denied him bail on October 4th and 30th, 2019.

Jalingo had spent 175 days after his arrest on August 22, 2019, few days to scheduled police interview which was at the instance of a petition bordering on an article he wrote in July, 2019 asking the Cross River State government to come clean on the whereabouts of the sum of N500 million approved and released for the floating of the Cross River Microfinance Bank.

After pleading not guilty to the four-count charge preferred against him, Jalingo’s counsel, Attah Ochunke moved the motion for bail with the prosecution counsel, Tanko Ashang refusing to oppose it.

In his ruling, Justice Shuaibu set the bail bond at N10million with one surety in like sum.