Gobe!! Nigerian Boxing Champion, Bash Ali Lands In Kuje Prison
Boxing Federation, WBF, cruiserweight boxing
champion, Bashiru Lawrence Ali, a.k.a. Bash Ali
(OON) and the Managing Director of NEXIM
Bank, Robert Orya has landed the Edo State-
born pugilist in Kuje Prison in Abuja.
Bash Ali has several times alleged that Orya
demanded a bribe of $10 million out of the
$30m which President Goodluck Jonathan had
asked the bank to release to the Local
Organising Committee, LOC, of the Guinness
Book of World Records fight which the boxer
plan to stage in Nigeria.
Bash Ali said: "On Wednesday, 18 February,
NEXIM Bank's Executive Director, Customer
Service, Bashir Wali invited me for a chat, while
waiting, the MD, Robert Orya, who on 6 May 6,
2014 asked for a private chat which I turned
down drove in, saw me and members of the
LOC and ordered security to beat us up. The
security men broke the head of our driver and
damaged the vehicle."
According to the boxer, he and some members
of the LOC were arrested by the police and
taken to the Federal Secretariat Command of
the force in Abuja and were later transferred to
the FCT Command before being finally taken to
SARS on the same Wednesday.
"On Thursday we were arraigned at the
Magistrate's Court, Cotonou Street at Wuse
Zone 6. At the end of the proceedings the Chief
Magistrate agreed to grant me bail of N1 million
with surety of a Level 10 Federal worker, which I
refused.
This forced the police to remand me at Kuje
Prison till 4 March when the case will come up
again.
"Fellow Nigerians, is this how we will allow
corruption to continue in our dear country?"
said Bash Ali through a text message he sent
out at the weekend.
P.M.NEWS Sports gathered from a police
source that Bash Ali is being tried for criminal
trespass, obstruction in public way, wrongful
restraint and criminal intimidation, contrary to
Sections 79, 85, 348, 194, 266 and 397 of penal
code.
The source said that Ali was arrested on
Wednesday at about 2p.m after one Mr. Bisong
Peter of NEXIM Bank reported him at the
Central Police Station.
He was arrested alongside five others when he
trespassed into the premises on the bank, using
a bus to block the entrance into the building,
thereby restricting staff from getting into their
offices.
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