A High Court sitting  in Maitama, Abuja has granted bail to Senator Dino Melaye who is currently being held in a police health facility in the city.

In a ruling on an application filed by the senator through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Justice Yusuf Halilu granted bail to Melaye on health ground. Justice Halilu held that the lawmaker must be healthy to stand trial.

He said since the Senator cannot be arraigned on a stretcher or ‎on his hospital bed, he should be allowed on bail to attend to his health.

The judge asked Melaye to produce three sureties, one of who must be the Clerk of the National Assembly and who must undertake to produce him when he is to be arraigned in respect of the charge already filed against him.

The judge said the other two sureties must be owners of property located  within the Abuja metropolis.