Alleged N2bn Fraud: Senator Ali Ndume Tells Court He Cant Find Maina

The trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, had ordered the defendant, Maina to provide a serving senator as a surety for the bail granted to him.

Justice Abang had, following Maina’s repeated requests, varied the bail conditions twice, reducing the bail sum from the original N1bn to N500m with only one surety as opposed, two originally requested by the court.

The only surety who must be a serving senator must be ready to accompany the defendant to court and sign the court’s register of attendance for every hearing session, the judge had ordered.

Ndume who represents Borno South Senatorial District where Maina hails from later agreed to serve as the defendant’s surety.

Justice Abang, however, adjourned the matter till October 5, with an order that the surety must be in court with the defendant on that day.

Maina was granted bail on July 28, nine months after he was detained at the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja.