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Fake agency: Court declines Adeyemi bail request, grants lawyers access

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News Named sources In the courts
  • An Abuja Federal High Court ordered authorities to allow detained Adeniyi Adeyemi access to his lawyers.
  • The court deferred decisions on his release, bail and access to medical treatment, giving respondents 72 hours to show cause.
  • Adeyemi faces an eight-count case involving alleged forgery, fraud and impersonation over his claim to lead an agency the presidency calls fake.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted detained Adeniyi Adeyemi access to his lawyers, but declined to release him or grant bail before hearing from the police and the attorney-general.

Justice Obiora Egwuatu ordered the Inspector-General of Police, the police and the Attorney-General of the Federation to explain within 72 hours why Adeyemi’s remaining requests should not be granted. The court adjourned the case until September 9.

Adeyemi had asked for six orders, including release from custody, bail while his fundamental-rights suit proceeds, access to doctors of his choice and protection from police questioning without his lawyer present. The judge granted his request for legal access, directing that he be allowed to meet his lawyers at reasonable hours.

Police arrested Adeyemi in Osun State in July after an Abuja court issued a bench warrant when he failed to appear for arraignment. Prosecutors accuse him of forgery, fraud and impersonation connected to his claim that he headed the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, an organisation the Presidency has disowned as fake.

The prosecution alleges that Adeyemi forged an appointment letter purportedly issued by President Bola Tinubu and signed by Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila, along with other official documents. Adeyemi denies the allegations and maintains that the council exists.

an order that, for so long as the applicant remains in custody, the respondents do permit the applicant unimpeded access to legal practitioners of his own choosing at all reasonable hours.

· Adeniyi Adeyemi’s lawyersThe requested order sought unrestricted access to lawyers while Adeyemi remained in custody.
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