Court grants bail to detained govt critic Professor Usman Yusuf
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has granted bail to Professor Usman Yusuf, a staunch critic of the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
Justice Chinyere Nwecheonwu made the ruling on Thursday morning, though the specific conditions of Yusuf’s bail remain unclear as of the time of filing this report.
The gun-wielding operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission raided the Abuja home of the professor of haematology-oncology and bone marrow transplantation in the presence of his wife and children at about 4:46 pm on January 29, and has been in detention since the.
Yusuf was later arraigned by the commission on purported charges of awarding contracts valued over N90 million, which though fully executed, were awarded to companies he has close affiliation with their owners, or at higher cost.
The charges were from when the professor served as Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme about 10 years ago.
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