Sahara Reporters
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed August 24 for hearing of a fresh application by the Department of the State Services seeking remand of four aides of the Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho).
The four aides are part of the other 12 who had been in DSS detention since July but were granted bail recently by the court.
Although the court had on August 4 admitted them to bail with conditions yet to be perfected, the DSS in a fresh application is seeking to halt the bail execution.
The DSS counsel, I. Awo, had opposed the application for bail for four of the applicants in custody, saying that the service had not concluded its investigation.
The applicants include; Amudat Habibat Babatunde, Abideen Shittu, Jamiu Noah Oyetunji and Bamidele Sunday listed as 2nd, 5th, 6th and 12th applicants in the application.
The DSS subsequently prayed Justice Obiora Egwuatu to reverse himself in the bail granted four out of the 12 detainees and permit it to remand the four detainees for further interrogation.
The new application marked FHC/ABJ/CS/647/2021 was filed on August 9 at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
A hearing notice at the Federal High Court on Friday showed that Justice Egwuatu has fixed August 24 for DSS to argue the application.
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