The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has granted bail to the six Regional Directors of the National Service Scheme (NSS) indicted in the GHC 7.9 million corruption scandal.
Although they have been granted bail, they are still in the custody of the BNI but are expected to be released on Friday.
Mr. Faibile Jnr. said: “After we filed the application for bail and had it served on the Attorney General, not too long after that, I got a call from the BNI that they’ve been granted bail.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”oqde2CoGRiyYwQGuOc1wlrgeR77N1Nw2″]According to him, his clients “were granted bail on condition that each of them will provide two sureties and you must be resident in Accra.”
Their lawyer, Egbert Faible Jnr. on Eyewitness News said: “What is left are the administrative aspects of the bail.”
The six regional directors of the Eastern, Northern, Upper East, Volta, Western and Greater Accra regions on Thursday sued the government for their continuous detention at the BNI after their arrest on Tuesday.
The suit was to demand their release from custody after the mandated 48 hours elapsed on Wednesday and all efforts to get them released failed.
They were arrested after preliminary investigations indicted them for their involvement in a shady financial deal which saw the scheme pay GHC 7.9 million to over 22,000 non-existent national service personnel in July 2014.
The BNI officials are currently waiting for the sureties to turn up “and then they will go to the homes of the sureties to ascertain whether they live there indeed and then after that, they will walk and so I anticipate that latest by noon tomorrow all of that will been completed and the gentlemen will go back to their stations,” he added.
He nonetheless noted that he will follow up with the application filed at the court “as a mark of respect and courtesy” to the court to explain the latest developments.
The Executive Director of the NSS, Alhaji Alhassan Imoro and 23 others who were implicated in the case were asked to step aside for further investigations to take place.
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By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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