Foremost Nigerian boxer, Bashiru Ali, otherwise called Bashi
Ali, was on Wednesday, granted N100, 000 bail by a Gudu Upper Area Court,
Abuja.
The boxer was docked for alleged criminal trespass.
The judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, ordered Bash Ali to provide
one surety in like sum that must reside within the court’s jurisdiction.
He adjourned the case till June 15 for hearing.
The defendant was arraigned on April 3, on a four-count
charge bordering on criminal trespass, intentional insult, inciting public
disturbance and refusal to make statement.
The judge had adjourned ruling on the defendant’s bail
application after the defence counsel, Mr Tajudeen Adegbite, applied for his
bail on self-recognition.
The prosecutor, Oyeyemi Adeniyi, had told the court that the
defendant criminally trespassed into the office of the Honourable Minister of
Sport and Youth Development, Federal Secretariat, Abuja, on April 3.
He said the defendant forcefully entered the office without
the minister’s invitation and intentionally insulted the minister.
Adeniyi said the defendant’s action attracted crowd and
disrupted the activities of the ministry before the police within the premises
intervened.
He said that the defendant refused to make statement to the
police when he was arrested.
He added that the offences contravened Sections 348, 399,
114 and 143 of the Penal Code.
The defendant denied committing the offences.
This Story was first published on The SUN
