Maina, who was summoned alongside his firm, Common Input Property and Investment Ltd, has been remanded in Abuja jail since October a year ago because of his powerlessness to meet the bail conditions.
He told Justice Okon Abang, on Monday, that the piece of the bail conditions expecting him to deliver two sureties, who must serve legislators with landed properties worth N500m each in Maitama or Asokoro, two highbrow territories of Abuja, was unreasonable and stringent.
Maina, who is being arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, asked the court to drop the said conditions in light of a legitimate concern for equity.
As a major aspect of the states of the bail allowed him by Justice Okon Abang on November 25, 2019, the court had guided him to create two serving representatives, to ensure the N1bn bail whole.
The judge added that the sureties to be delivered by Maina must embrace to show up in court with him at each preliminary date, pending the finish of the case.
He included that ought to, at any rate, one of the litigants neglect to show up with Maina at any court sitting, the bail would be renounced.
Among different conditions, the judge said the respondent ought to likewise store his United States of American travel papers with the main recorder of the court, pending the finish of the preliminary.
At the becoming aware of the bail variety application recorded by Maina on December 6, 2019, the respondent's legal advisor, Mr. Afam Osigwe, said while his customer had met different conditions, it had been incomprehensible for him to get congresspersons to fill in as the sureties.
While recognizing the judge for allowing bail to his customer, Osigwe said the bail conditions were "over the top and difficult to meet".
"The stringent and unnecessary nature of the conditions are confirmed by the failure of the primary respondent/candidate (Maina) to meet those conditions starting today, January 13, 2020.
"The conditions he can't meet are set out in section 4 of the testimony documented in the help.
"The sureties (proposed) whose names are additionally referenced said they don't have properties worth N500m in either Asokoro or Maitama."
Accordingly, the judge addressed if the guard group had led a hunt of the land library in Abuja to affirm the case of the proposed sureties.
He said the conditions were connected to the bail for an explanation, including that the guard group, which contended the bail application in November a year ago, neglected to challenge EFCC's case that Maina was never again inhabitant in Nigeria.
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