The Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Monday, granted bail to the National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, in the sum of ₦2 billion with two sureties in like sum.
Justice I.E Ekwo, who presided over the matter, ruled that the sureties must be responsible persons, with at least one of them required to own landed property within the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).
EFCC’s Head of Media & Publicity, Dele Oyewale, disclosed in a statement that the Judge further directed that one of the sureties must present evidence of tax clearance certificates for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025.
He ordered the Registrar of the court to verify the documents and particulars of the sureties before the bail conditions are deemed to have been satisfied.
The court also ordered the defendant to deposit his international passport with the court. The Registrar was directed to notify the Nigeria Immigration Service of the seizure of the passport, while the defendant was barred from travelling outside the country or beyond the jurisdiction of the court without the prior permission of the court.
Thereafter, Justice Ekwo adjourned the matter till October 5, 6 and 7, 2026, for continuation of trial.
Bodejo was first arraigned on July 9, 2026, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering involving $2.33 million.
Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo (male, adult), on or about the 11th day of January 2022, at Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did knowingly and wilfully, without lawful authority or excuse, accept a cash payment of the sum of One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD $100,000.00) in physical currency from one Sa’idu Abubakar, a former Accountant-General of Bauchi State who is currently in the lawful custody of the Nigeria Police Force, which sum exceeded the statutory cash transaction threshold of Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00), prescribed under Section 1(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended), without routing the said transaction through a financial institution as required by law, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 16(1)(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and punishable under Section 16(2)(b) of the same Act.”
