Following pressure mounted on Justice David Oladimeji,
he has reversed his order to remand a former acting Vice Chancellor and
bursar of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife at the Ilesha Prison.
Professor
Elujoba and the bursar of the institution, Josephine Akeredolu are now
to be further remanded in the Economic and Financial Crime Commission
custody, where they have been since last Wednesday.
Justice Oladimeji also ordered that the ruling on the bail application earlier scheduled to hold next Wednesday, July, the 19th, be brought forward to Friday, July, the 15th.
The
reversal of the orders came after several hours of agitation by
students and staff of the institutions, who had besieged the court
premises demanding the immediate release of Prof. Elujoba.
The
students together with the staff had done everything possible to
prevent the prison and EFCC officials from taking the accused persons to
the Ilesha Prison, from deflating the tires of their vehicles to
locking the judge, lawyers and every other person within the court
premises inside.
The agitators who had defied heavy
presence of security operatives in the court and grounded every activity
in the area, leaving commuters plying the road stranded for the hours
the agitation lasted.
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