An attorney representing the students said they were free on bail following immense public pressure but without stringent conditions.
It came more than two years after the infamous Internet fraud ringleader was arrested in Dubai in June 2020 for driving multiple schemes that targeted victims in Europe and the United States.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC had arraigned the former pension boss before FCT High Court in 2016.
In Osun and Ekiti States, retirees are scrambling to get slices of benefits from their years of service or risk a long, near hopeless wait.
Justice Okon Abang was unavailable to hear the charges against the former pension reform manager.
