Embattled Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin, and the three others currently being held at the Agodi Prisons in connection with the killing of a factional leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Oyo State, Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.k.a Eleweomo), will know their fate on Wednesday (today).
Their bail application filed at an Ibadan High Court by a former National President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), last Thursday was expected to come up for argument today.
The application was supported by a 44-page affidavit deposed to on behalf of the accused, including Folarin, Ramoni Jayeola Bankole, Olaide Raji and Raimi Ismaila.
The state Commissioner of Police and the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice were joined in the application.
The accused were remanded in prison custody on the order of Mrs. Fatima Badrudeen of an Ibadan Chief Magistrate Court where they were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder of the union leader.
Admitting that the court had no jurisdiction on the matter, Badrudeen ordered that they be remanded pending the time proper application would be filed at the High Court and for proper bail application to be taken at the High Court. The case was adjourned till January 14, 2010.
Our correspondent learnt that intense lobbying was going on to ensure that the embattled senator regain his freedom anytime this week.
It was learnt that some prominent Ibadan elders had waded into the matter with a view to seeing an end to what they viewed as political persecution of the senator.
Meanwhile, apparently overwhelmed by the number of people who visit the prison daily, authorities of Agodi Prisons have restricted the Senate Leader’s visiting time to 4pm.
Our correspondent who visited the prison on Monday saw that a notice conveying the authorities’ decision was pasted boldly at a strategic place at the entrance of the prison.
The notice read, “Attention: Visit to the Senate Leader ends by 4pm –DCP.”
The notice apparently supersedes a notice applicable to all the inmates which indicates that visiting hours end by 2pm.
Many loyalists of the senator were still seen around the prison premises at the time of the visit.
Most them trooped in when the news spread that he could regain his freedom on Monday.
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Eleweomo: Folarin, Others know fate today
Eleweomo: Folarin, Others know fate today
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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