Afrigather A Justice of the Peace Court docket of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has denied to grant to bail to Obiajulu Uja, a passenger debarked and handed over to the Police for making delicate assertion about Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, onboard on an Ibom Air Abuja-Lagos certain flight penultimate Friday..
Uja, having filed a bail software via his counsel, Mohammed Abdulazeez Ismail, sitting at Zuba, Abuja, held that the appliance was untimely.
In accordance with him, the displays hooked up to the appliance didn’t point out that Uja was unfit to face trial however moderately mentioned he was of unsound thoughts. He held that whereas the structure ensures each individual’s liberty, a courtroom can deprive an individual their liberty primarily based on well being grounds.
The Justice of the Peace held that Uja can’t be granted bail citing the provisions of Part 35(1)(e) of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and Part 278 of the Administration of Prison Justice Act (ACJA), 2015.
He held that the displays hooked up to Uja’s bail software raised the difficulty of his medical capability understanding totally effectively that the place the psychological capability of a defendant is a matter, the courtroom has the responsibility to establish the medical scenario of such a defendant
He ordered that Uja be held on the Kuje Correctional centre of Nigerian Correctional Service having turned down the bail software.
He then adjourned the matter to April 20 for report and or listening to after ordering the pinnacle of the centre to take the defendant to a authorities hospital to establish Uja’s psychological capability.
