An Abuja Federal High Court yesterday stayed proceedings in the case of Charles Okah and two others standing trial for allegedly participating in the October 2010 Independence day bombing.
Justice Gabriel Kolawole said the court will await the Appeal Court’s decision on an application filed by Okah and Obi Nwabueze challenging the jurisdiction of the court.
The court also declined granting bail to the accused persons.
Okah was initially standing trial alongside Nwabueze, Edmund Ebuware and Tiemkemfa Francis, but Francis died on March 2, in prison custody.
Yesterday at the resumed trial, counsel to Okah and Nwabueze, Oghenovo Otemu, orally applied for bail of his clients after he informed the court that the inhuman conditions the accused persons are subjected to in Kuje prisons has resulted to their ill-health.
Opposing the application, prosecuting counsel Alex Iziyon (SAN), asked the court to be hesitant in exercising its discretion in granting the application. He said statements made by plaintiffs counsel regarding their living conditions in prison, is malicious, unverified and highly speculative.
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