MAGISTRATE GRANTS AKOGUN BROTHERS BAIL, BARELY 192 HOURS OF REMAND

Senior Magistrate Muhammed Ibraheem granted the bail application after reviewing the offenses and granting the applicants with a sum of #500, 000 each and the provision of two surety who are known resident of the area of the jurisdiction of the court. 

The office of the commissioner of police was primarily the state prosecutor in the case before it was taken over by the office of the state attorney general, with Abdulmumeen Busari leading the legal team. 

Barrister Busari had argued that the bail motion was served while the office of the commissioner for police was the counsel and would rather the court grant them 48 hours to review the bail motion. 

Senior Magistrate Ibraheem overruled the request and ruled that the bail motion should continue hearing. 

The counsel to the defendant Barrister T.N Olaitan quoted Section 35, 36 sub 5 of the 1999 constitution, section 165, 169 and 170 of the Kwara state administration of criminal justice, on an order of the court admitting the defendant's application for bail or in the alternative.

After granting the bail application, magistrate Muhammed Ibraheem adjourned further hearing on the case till November 23, 2022. 

It could be recalled that the Nigeria Police Force, Kwara State command, charged a journalist with Sobi FM station, Dare Akogun, and his brother, Abdulrasheed Akogun, to a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ilorin over some WhatsApp engagements allegedly indicting the Chief Press Secretary to Kwara State Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye as well as defaming and inciting the public against the government of Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.