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George Uboh Granted Bail In Ned Nwoko’s Defamatory Case, Remanded In Prison Over Emefiele’s Petition

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An Upper Area Court sitting in Zuba, a suburb of Abuja has granted bail to the chairman of the George Uboh Whistleblowers Network (GUWN), Dr. George Uboh owing to a ‘Ned Nwoko’s defamation of character’ petition against him.

BIGPEN Online understands that Uboh was granted bail by the Chief Magistrate of the court and earlier perfected his bail condition but before he could be released on Thursday, the police prosecutor slammed another charges of defamation of character against him brought by the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele.

It was learned that soon after the prosecutor read the charge, the Magistrate immediately deferred the oral bail application presented by Uboh’s lawyer till Monday, May 27 and he was subsequently taken to the Suleja Prison instead for remand on the orders of the court.

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An social activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity with ElombahNews, wondered how such injustice could be perpetrated under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari which touts itself as fighting corruption holistically.

He noted that instead of being hounded by security agents, George Uboh ought to be receiving accolades from the government if it’s corruption fight is genuine.

Uboh’s associate who preferred anonymity in a terse statement to BIGPEN Online on Friday said, “Emefiele’s filing of a defamation of character criminal complaint against George Uboh when George Uboh has a pending lawsuit fhc/abj/cs/419/2019 against same Emefiele which Emefiele is yet to answer, a case which Uboh has gotten exparte order to serve Emefiele via substituted service constitutes malicious prosecution aided by DIG of police investigations Tony Michael.

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“IGP should mete out the requisite disciplinary measures to DIG Michael including but not limited to transfer from investigations for abuse of power”.

Recall Uboh through his whistle-blower network had allegedly exposed how the CBN governor and some eminent Nigerians connived and embezzled hundreds of billions of dollars, a report that CBN had since denied.

He was subsequently arrested after detectives from Force Criminal Investigation Department searched his residence in Abuja for documents and later charged to court after five days in detention.

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