Yanga!!!Nigerian Boxing Champion, Bash Ali Lands In Kuje Prison

The running battle between
Nigeria’s World 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.
Source: PmNews