Tobi Adebayo
The Senior Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global, Prophet Israel Ogundipe popularly addressed as Genesis, has been granted a post-conviction bail by an Appellate court in Lagos.
A three-man panel headed by Justice Abdullahi Bayero granted Ogundipe bail on the ground of health conditions.
Justice Bayero, while delivering his ruling, held that Ogundipe was a first-time offender and had shown the court that he sufferers serious health conditions.
“There are criteria for granting a convict bail. These include that the applicant must be a first time offender or have a serious health condition.
“The applicant seeking bail pending appeal before the court is a first-time offender and he has also shown to the court that he is having hypertension, peptic ulcer, unending malaria and diabetes, which are serious health conditions.
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“He is consequently admitted to bail in the sum of N2m with two sureties in like sum. The sureties must have landed property on Lagos Island with the original Certificate of Occupancy from the Lagos State Government. The sureties are to deposit these documents along with their passport photographs with the Deputy Registrar of the Court of Appeal,” the judge said.
Ogundipe was on November 18, 2020, sentenced to a year in prison by Justice Olabisi Akinlade for stealing and unlawful conversion of the property of a London-based architect, Mrs Oladele Williams-Oni.
