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By Matthew Eloyi
The Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, reduced the bail conditions it earlier imposed on popular Nigerian internet socialite, Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha, who is facing fraud charges.
It had been reported how the judge, Mojisola Dada, granted bail to Mompha with tough conditions, including the sum of N200 million bail sum, with two sureties in like sum.
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The bail conditions also required one of his sureties to own a property within the jurisdiction worth N100 million.
But ruling on an application filed by his lawyer lamenting his client’s inability to meet significant aspects of the conditions, the judge, on Monday, reduced the bail sum from N200million to N25 million, but still with two sureties in like sum.
According to a statement by the spokesperson for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Wilson Uwujaren, the judge also ordered, under the reviewed conditions, that one of the sureties must own a property worth N50 million in Lagos instead of N100 million worth of property earlier ordered.
Mompha has had several run-ins with the EFCC in the last two years over allegations of fraud. He has denied the charges.
