My Bail Conditions Are Too Stringent – Seun Egbegbe Cries Out After Two Months In Detention

All the prison enjoyment seems to have come to a quick end as remanded film marketer, Seun Egbegbe, has complained bitterly about the ‘impossible’ bail condition he has been slammed with, after spending two full months in Ikoyi prison, Lagos, a reaction contrary to his reaction when he was freshly arrested.

He has been granted bail for more than five weeks now by Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo of Federal High Court 8 in Ikoyi (Lagos) alongside his accomplice (Ayomide Oyekan). They were both granted bail on Friday, February 24, 2017.

The one time filmmaker and socialite has however been unable to find two sureties with the profile required by the court. The judge had ruled that the two sureties in the like sum of N2.5 million each and must be: (1) A civil servant on level 16 who deposits his international passport. (2) A property owner in Lagos metropolis who deposits the certificate of occupancy. Both sureties must also be profiled with their office and home addresses verified.

But after running from pillar to post for five weeks, seeking sureties for him, Seun Egbegbe’s close associates who were earlier boastful of getting him out almost immediately he was arrested have now complained that the conditions are too stringent. They even lamented that the case may last up to four years.

“Where do they expect him to get the sureties who would leave the passport and certificate of occupancy with the court until the case which may last four years ends?” one close associate told Encomium.

“Who will risk losing N2.5 million as surety for a case that has not even really started?” another insider told us.
“For now, he can only hope that he would be lucky to get the sureties or approach the court to amend the bail conditions,” another close friend explained.

He was arrested November last year after he attempted to steal mobile phones worth N2.5m from a store in the popular Computer Village, Ikeja and was rearrested and detained on Thursday, February 2, 2017 in Gbagada, Lagos after he attempted to defraud a couple of Bureau de Change operators.