The court had repeatedly ordered the EFCC,which recently took custody of Mr Emefiele from the State Security Service (SSS), to either produce him in court or release him.
The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted bail to the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria , Godwin Emefiele.
The judge, Adeniyi Ademola, also ordered him to submit all his travel documents to the court's registrar. In a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by EFCC, he made the order to challenge his almost five-month-long detention.He was arrested a day after being suspended from office over undisclosed corruption charges.
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