An FCT High Court, sitting in the Apo area of Abuja has granted Senator Dino Melaye N5million bail bordering on attempted suicide.
The Senator who is representing Kogi West Senatorial Zone is being arraigned on a six-count charge also in an attempt to escape from custody and damage police property, denied committing the offences.
In today’s ruling Justice Silvanus Oriji, said that he is aware that the court had granted bail to the defendant when he was arraigned before the vacation of the court on July 25, 2018.
Justice Oriji also agreed that the bail conditions included the sum of N5 million and two sureties in like sum stands.
The prosecuting counsel, Dr Alex Izinyon, had told the court that the defendant committed the alleged offences on April 24. 2018, while being conveyed in a police vehicle to Lokoja Kogi state to face charges brought against him, when he forced his way out and escaped.
The trial has however been adjourned to April 5, 2019, for hearing.
