An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday granted bail in the sum of N500, 000 to a 36-year-old man, Lewis Okokonedo, who allegedly failed to produce a suspect he stood as surety for.
The Magistrate, Mrs Ejiro Kubeinje, also said that Okokonedo should produce two sureties in like sum.
Kubeinje ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed and have evidence of two years’ tax payment.
The magistrate adjourned the case until Dec. 15 for substantive hearing.
Okokonedo, whose address was not given, was charged with contempt of law.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The prosecutor, ASP Bisi Ogunleye, alleged that the defendant stood as a surety for one Emmanuel Chidiebere charged with conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretences and threat to life.
Ogunleye told the court that the defendant signed an undertaking to produce the suspect whenever needed but failed to live up it.
He said that the alleged incident took place on Oct. 2 at the Human Right Resource Centre in Ikeja.
The alleged offence contravenes Section 97 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
