Gov Ayade puts Agba Jalingo in chains at the beginning of the ordeal.
Matilda Omonaiye/
A Cross River-based journalist, Agba Jalingo, has been denied bail following his arrest and appearance in court after he published a report exposing how Governor Ben Ayade allegedly approved and immediately diverted N500million meant for the state’s Microfinance Bank.
A Federal High Court in Calabar, the state capital, presided over by Justice Simon Amobeda, refused to grant the journalist bail.
Jalingo was arraigned on September 25, 2019, on a 4-count charge of treasonable felony, terrorism and attempt to topple the Cross River State Government after 34 days in police custody.
Justice Amobeda, who also threw out the preliminary objection of the prosecution counsel, held that the charges were grave with one carrying capital punishment.
He also said that one of the grounds for which bail was applied for was health and there was no substantial evidence to prove that his health was failing.
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