JAMB Director Arraigned For Threatening Oloyede’s Wife To BlackMail Her Husband
A Deputy Director with Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Mr Yisa Usman, changed into arraigned the day gone by on allegations bordering on threatening Mrs Raheemat Oloyede on telecellsmartphone with reason to blackmail her husband, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, the board’s registrar.
Usman becomes arraigned with the aid of using the police on behalf of the Federal Government on a 5-matter price earlier than Justice Nkeonye Maha of a Federal High Court in Abuja.
He allegedly devoted the offence with Abdulfatai Usman, stated to be on the run, between February 14, 2022, and February 15, 2022.
They had been speculated to have deliberately communicated via a community pc device with phone number: 447529723948 with Mrs Oloyede “a verbal exchange that is grossly offensive, indecent, crook intimidation for the motive of inflicting inconvenience or useless anxiety” to her.
The accused have been supposed to have dedicated the offence opposite to Section 24(1)(a) & 1(b) of the Cybercrime Act 2015.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reviews that Usman is the sole defendant withinside the price, dated March 29 however filed on March 30.
He pleaded now no longer responsible for all of the counts after the fee was turned into examination to him.
Police prosecutor, Eristo Asaph, made software for a tribulation date after the defendant took the plea.
But Moses Balogun, who seemed for Usman, implemented for a bail.
“Having pleaded now no longer responsible, we will be making use of for a bail, my lord,” he stated.
The attorney knowledgeable the courtroom docket that a bail software, dated and filed on June 7, was served at the prosecution on an identical day.
Balogun stated the movement on word become added under sections 35 and 36(5) of the 1999 Constitution and in compliance with the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) and beneathneath the inherent jurisdiction of the courtroom docket.
He informed the courtroom docket that in the research of the problem and whilst Usman changed into admitted to an administrative bail, he complied with the phrases of the bail.
The legal professional, who stated Usman became a deputy director, prayed the courtroom docket to supply him bail on liberal phrases or self-reputation pending the listening to and resolution of the case.
Asaph did not oppose the application.
In a ruling, Justice Maha admitted Usman to bail withinside the sum of N2 million with a surety who should be a civil servant on Level 14 and need personal landed assets in the jurisdiction of the courtroom docket.
She dominated that the defendant and the surety should post their journey files and a passport photo every to the courtroom docket’s registrar.
In the alternative, the decision held that the surety may also be an accountable citizen with proof of tax fee for a length of years and should have landed assets withinside the jurisdiction of the courtroom docket.
She stated the surety should additionally depose to the testimony of means.
Justice Maha ordered that Usman have to be remanded at a correctional centre pending the perfection of his bail and adjourned the problem until October 26 for trial.
But Balogun, who prayed the courtroom docket to reserve a launch of his consumer to him pending the perfection of his bail within 5 days, pledged to write down a project to the effect.
The judge granted the plea and ordered that the project have to be finished earlier than the near of work.
