The running battle between Nigeria’s
World Boxing Federation, WBF, cruiserweight boxing champion, Bashiru
Lawrence Ali, a.k.a. Bash Ali (OON) and the Managing Director of NEXIM
Bank, Robert Orya has landed the Edo State-born pugilist in Kuje Prison
in Abuja.
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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