{"id":4297,"date":"2020-01-27T20:06:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2020-01-27T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T20:06:02","slug":"efcc-case-court-releases-senator-shehu-sani-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=4297","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Case:\u00a0Court Releases Senator Shehu Sani On Bail\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>EFCC Case:\u00a0Court Releases Senator Shehu Sani On Bail\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>From Our Correspondent, Abuja<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Former Senator and activist, Shehu Sani has been granted bail by the Federal High Court, Abuja\u00a0 over EFCC case.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The reowned activist was granted bail after the court resumed on a short break to hear his bail application.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The Special Adviser to Senator Sani, in reaction to the bail application said, \u201cSenator has been granted bail and we are trying to fulfill the conditions.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Besides, Sani was on Monday morning docked at Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on two counts charges of advance free fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>He pleaded not guilty to the charges in which he was accused by the EFCC on collecting the sum of\u00a0$15,\u00a0000 from a Kaduna based businessman, Alhaji Sani Dauda as a bribe for the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad for the purpose of influencing a pending matter before the court.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The former Senator was accused of collecting $10,000 from the same businessman to bribe the acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFCC Case:\u00a0Court Releases Senator Shehu Sani On Bail\u00a0\u00a0 From Our Correspondent, Abuja Former Senator and activist, Shehu Sani has been granted bail by the Federal High Court, Abuja\u00a0 over EFCC case. The reowned activist was granted bail after the court resumed on a short break to hear his bail application. The Special Adviser to Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EFCC Case:\u00a0Court Releases Senator Shehu Sani On Bail\u00a0\u00a0 -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=4297\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EFCC Case:\u00a0Court Releases Senator Shehu Sani On Bail\u00a0\u00a0 -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EFCC Case:\u00a0Court Releases Senator Shehu Sani On Bail\u00a0\u00a0 From Our Correspondent, Abuja Former Senator and activist, Shehu Sani has been granted bail by the Federal High Court, Abuja\u00a0 over EFCC case. 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