Celebrated
Boxer, Bash Alli is in Kuje Prison.
And he is
pointing accusing fingers at the C.E.O of Nexim Bank, Robert Orya as the
architect of his ordeal.
Here are
the details
Bash Ali
has several times alleged that Orya demanded a bribe of $10 million out of the
$30m which President Goodluck Jonathan had asked the bank to release to the
Local Organising Committee, LOC, of the Guinness Book of World Records fight
which the boxer plan to stage in Nigeria.
Bash Ali
said: “On Wednesday, 18 February, NEXIM Bank’s Executive Director, Customer
Service, Bashir Wali invited me for a chat, while waiting, the MD, Robert Orya,
who on 6 May 6, 2014 asked for a private chat which I turned down drove in, saw
me and members of the LOC and ordered security to beat us up. The security men
broke the head of our driver and damaged the vehicle.”
According
to the boxer, he and some members of the LOC were arrested by the police and
taken to the Federal Secretariat Command of the force in Abuja and were later
transferred to the FCT Command before being finally taken to SARS on the same
Wednesday.
“On
Thursday we were arraigned at the Magistrate’s Court, Cotonou Street at Wuse
Zone 6. At the end of the proceedings the Chief Magistrate agreed to grant me
bail of N1 million with surety of a Level 10 Federal worker, which I refused.
This forced the police to remand me at Kuje Prison till 4 March when the case
will come up again.
“Fellow
Nigerians, is this how we will allow corruption to continue in our dear
country?” said Bash Ali through a text message he sent out at the weekend.
P.M.NEWS
Sports gathered from a police source that Bash Ali is being tried for criminal
trespass, obstruction in public way, wrongful restraint and criminal
intimidation, contrary to Sections 79, 85, 348, 194, 266 and 397 of penal code.
The
source said that Ali was arrested on Wednesday at about 2p.m after one Mr.
Bisong Peter of NEXIM Bank reported him at the Central Police Station. He was
arrested alongside five others when he trespassed into the premises on the
bank, using a bus to block the entrance into the building, thereby restricting
staff from getting into their offices.
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