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BAIL CONDITIONS SHOULD NOT UNDERMINE THE ESSENCE OF BAIL
In recent times, we have observed with growing concern a disturbing trend in the administration of criminal justice in Nigeria, where courts and law enforcement agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force, EFCC, ICPC, and other security agencies, increasingly impose bail conditions that are excessive, impractical, and difficult to satisfy.
The frequent insistence on sureties who are senior civil servants of specified grade levels, coupled with demands for landed properties of extraordinary value, has in many cases transformed bail from a mechanism for securing attendance at trial into a tool of pretrial detention.
The consequence is that many persons who are constitutionally presumed innocent and have ostensibly been granted bail remain incarcerated because the conditions attached to their release are beyond their reach. This troubling development undermines the constitutional right to personal liberty, weakens the presumption of innocence, and defeats the very essence and purpose of bail within our criminal justice system.
We consider it necessary to reiterate that bail is a constitutional safeguard designed to secure the attendance of an accused person at trial while preserving his or her liberty pending the determination of guilt or innocence. It is neither a punishment nor a mechanism for imposing pre-trial incarceration by indirect means. The law is settled that bail conditions must be reasonable, practical, and capable of being fulfilled by the accused person.
The Supreme Court, in Suleman & Anor v. Commissioner of Police, Plateau State (2008), emphasized that the object of bail pending trial is to grant pre-trial freedom to an accused person whose appearance in court can be secured through appropriate conditions. Bail is not intended to create insurmountable obstacles that make release impossible.
We are particularly concerned by the increasing tendency to impose conditions that are disconnected from prevailing economic realities and often impossible to satisfy. Conditions requiring sureties who are serving civil servants on specific salary grades, ownership of landed properties of extraordinary value, or other burdensome requirements effectively convert the grant of bail into a denial of bail.
Of particular concern is the continued insistence in some cases on sureties who must be senior civil servants, often on Grade Levels 16 or 17, and who must own properties worth hundreds of millions of naira. Such conditions have been strongly criticised by the appellate courts.
In Dasuki v. Director-General, State Security Service & Ors (2019) LPELR-49182 (CA), the Court of Appeal unequivocally condemned the practice of involving serving public officers as a mandatory category of sureties. The Court observed that such requirements are unknown to civilised legal systems and run contrary to public service regulations. The Court further noted that expecting a public servant on Grade Level 16 to own property worth N100 million would not only be unrealistic but could also conflict with public service rules and anti-corruption objectives.
The Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, is equally clear on this issue. Section 165(1) provides that while the grant and conditions of bail are within the discretion of the court, such conditions must not be excessive. Judicial discretion, though wide, must always be exercised judiciously, reasonably, and in a manner consistent with constitutional guarantees.
We therefore restate that bail conditions must be tailored solely to ensure attendance at trial. They must never serve as instruments of punishment prior to conviction. Conditions that cannot be met amount in substance to a refusal of bail and contribute directly to pre-trial detention and congestion in correctional facilities.
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This single, powerful statement by H.E. @Atiku Abubakar about Mallam Nasir @ElRufai is more than enough to earn my full support for him in the 2027 General Elections.
Our position remains clear and unwavering: whoever emerges as the presidential candidate of the ADC will have our total support and commitment. However, until we are guided otherwise by our leader, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, H.E. Atiku Abubakar remains our preferred presidential candidate for the 2027 General Elections.
The time for speculation is over. The time for organization, mobilization, and hard work is now.
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Dear ADC
For the 2027 election, PU nationwide should be graded A, B, C, D and E based on registered voters in the PU.
There should also be 2 agents in PU grade A B and C while grade D and E can have 1.
Agents must be ready and trained 1 month before election.
In the name of Allah SWT, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. If running again will not be in the interest of the excellent people of Kaduna North and Nigerians as whole. Then may God give it to another. In the coming weeks, I will be going around by the grace of God to engage the people of Kaduna North in their homes and streets, as well as the stakeholders of our party, the African Democratic Congress, (ADC). I am not entitled to anything and I will work as hard as I can and always do to state our record and convince the public. We will do this while willing to support whoever emerges in the primary election. Regardless of the outcome we will campaign for the candidates in our party with the precision, honesty and transparency we are known for. My focus is still ensuring justice for our dear father, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai but we will be testing this mic from this week Insha Allah. See you soon.
Signed: Jika Hanta
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URGENT CIVIC APPEAL: FOR THE SURVIVAL OF MALAM NASIR EL-RUFAI.
To: His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria
And To:
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), @UN
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),
The Delegation of the European Union to Nigeria and ECOWAS, @ECOWASParliamnt
The Embassies and High Commissions of the Diplomatic Community in Nigeria,
SUBJECT: URGENT APPEAL AGAINST INSTITUTIONAL LAWLESSNESS, CUSTODIAL TORTURE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE DETENTION OF MALAM NASIR EL-RUFAI
Your Excellency, Distinguished Representatives of the United Nations, and Members of the Diplomatic Corps,
We are compelled to write this open letter to draw the immediate attention of the federal government of Nigeria and the international community to a dangerous escalation of state-sponsored trauma, institutional overreach, and the systematic erosion of constitutional safeguards surrounding the ongoing three-month detention of the former Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai.
What began under the guise of statutory anti-corruption inquiries has rapidly devolved into a coordinated campaign of psychological and soft torture, punctuated by an alarming disregard for the rule of law and basic human decency.
I. The Weaponization of Custody: Denial of Medical Care and Sustenance.
A democracy is defined by how it treats those within its penal systems. Recent events inside the detention facilities of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have raised severe alarm across Nigeria:
A. Defiance of Court Orders!
On Friday, May 15, 2026, ICPC operatives actively blocked Malam El-Rufaiโs personal physician from accessing him to review critical medical tests. This direct obstruction openly flouts a clear, standing judicial directive granting him unrestricted access to his medical team.
B. Arbitrary Curfews on Human Sustenance!
Security personnel turned away his wife, Aichatou, who had brought him his evening meal, citing an arbitrary, unwritten institutional curfew. Denying a detainee access to their family doctor and family-provided nutrition crosses the line from lawful detention into deliberate, state-sanctioned malice.
C. Fears of Poisonous Substances!
Given these restrictive measures, deep anxieties have escalated regarding the victimโs safety and health under custody, an alarm previously sounded by political commentators and the victim himself.
II. The Preemptive Threat: Shuffling Custody as a Tool for Soft Torture!
We are raising an immediate, preemptive alarm regarding credible, underground intelligence indicating plans by the authorities to abruptly transfer Malam El-Rufai from the ICPC to the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Violations of Section 35 & 36 (1999 Constitution).
Having already been arraigned before the Federal High Court and Kaduna State High Court, El-Rufai's case is strictly sub judice. To shuffle a citizen between security agencies to enforce an indefinite administrative detention, especially after nearly 90 days in custody is a flagrant abuse of power. It constitutes a psychological carousel of custody explicitly designed as soft torture to break the detainee's spirit outside the boundaries of formal trial.
III. The Weapon of Secondary Trauma: Orchestrated Raids on Family Homes.
Compounding this state-led intimidation are imminent plans by armed security operatives to conduct invasive raids on the private residences of Malam El-Rufaiโs wives.
A. Section 37 (Right to Private and Family Life)!
The Nigerian Constitution explicitly guarantees the sanctity of the home and family life. For three months, El-Rufaiโs wives and children have borne the heavy emotional burden of his detention without bail, a trauma compounded by the recent passing of his elderly mother.