Former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde has been remanded in a correctional facility pending the hearing of his bail application, scheduled for July 8, a court ruled on Tuesday.
Gatekeepers News reports that Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court in Abuja, the nation’s capital, made the pronouncement.
The Judge gave the ruling after Ojerinde was arraigned on an 18-count charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/97/2021, in which he was accused, among others, of complicity in the diversion of public funds estimated at over N5.2billion.
Ojerinde is being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission(ICPC) which alleged that the former JAMB registrar committed the offences, from 2003 when he served as the Registrar of the National Examination Council (NECO) till 2021.
Ojerinde, however, pleaded not guilty to the allegation.
The defendant lawyer, Peter Olorunnishola (SAN), subsequently informed the court about a bail application he filed and served on the prosecution.
He sought time to react to the counter-affidavit filed by the prosecution lawyer, Ebenezer Shogunle, which according to him, was served late.
Gatekeepers News reports that the protection lawyer did not object to Olorunnishola’s request for time. He, however, opposed the bail application.
This is a developing story…
