A Lagos High Court has refused the bail application filed by the convicted former Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Bello Lafiaji.
Lafiaji, currently serving a jail term, had wanted the court to admit him to bail pending the determination of his appeal.
Justice Olusola Williams had on July 21 sentenced Lafiaji and his Special Assistant, Usman Amali to four years and two years imprisonment for corruption.
They were jailed for receiving 164,300 Euros from a suspected drug baron, Ikenna Onochie, to facilitate his release from NDLEA’s custody.
Dissatisfied with the judgment, Lafiaji and Amali had through their counsel,Taiwo Osipetan, filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal, Lagos and a bail application at a Lagos High Court.
Ruling on the bail application, Justice Williams held that it did not disclose any special circumstance to warrant granting it.
she said the issue that he Lafiaji should be granted bail because he had served the country meritoriously or that his appeal may be delayed because of the congestion at the Appeal Court does not constitute a special circumstance.
She said In the final analysis, I find it difficult to grant the application and it is hereby dismissed.
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