Barely a week after remanded in prison, an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on Thursday, granted bail to the former Accountant-General of the Federation, AGF, Ahmed Idris.
The court had last week Friday ordered that Idris and his co-defendants be kept in Kuje Correctional facility pending the hearing of their bail applications.
The remand order followed the arraignment of the former AGF by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The other defendants were Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Ltd.
The defendants are being prosecuted on a 14-count charge of stealing and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N109, 485,572,691.
But in his judgement on Thursday, the presiding judge, Justice Adeyemi Ajayi, adopted all the terms and conditions of the administrative bail the EFCC earlier gave the ex-AGF and his two co-defendants.
“In line with the due process and supremacy of the law, the Defendants are still entitled to bail, irrespective of the enormity of the allegations against them.
“The EFCC did not in any of its processes, stated that the defendants misbehaved while on administrative bail,” Ajayi ruled.