Three United Methodist Church clerics and one member remanded in the Nigeria Correctional Centre for allegedly spying on the property of the Nigerian Police have been granted bail by the Industrial/Magistrate Court in Jalingo, the state capital.
The four accused persons were remanded at the Nigeria Correctional Centre for breaching the Nigeria Police Force Official Secret Act by sharing images of the Taraba State Police Command with their Head Church in the United States.
One of the conditions for granting the bail was the handing over of their International Passports to the court until the litigation is concluded.
The Magistrate of the Industrial Court, Bartholomeo Vakkai, also noted that the accused must notify the court, if they must travel out of Taraba State in the next three weeks, and must provide guarantors, with properties in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital.
The case has been adjourned to July 19 for a hearing.
However, some of the accused persons have insisted on their innocence over the allegations against them.
It will be recalled that the Taraba State Police Command charged the three clerics and one member of the United Methodist Church in Jalingo to court, for taking photographs of sensitive parts of the Police Command and sharing them with their foreign partners.
The clerics were invited by the police for questioning over a report of peace disruption against them and were said to have used the photographs taken as evidence to their head Church in the United States.