“We have established the fact that the vessel and her crew are complicit in the crime of economic sabotage.”
If found guilty, the former president would face up to 25 years in prison.
“We have worked hard to institutionalise the OGP by mainstreaming open government practices across our governance systems,” Mr Buhari said.
One of the bail conditions by Justice Adeyemi Ajayi is that the defendants will not leave the FCT without the court’s permission.
The oil companies told a House ad hoc committee that they only lifted crude oil and didn’t take part in subsidy payments by the NNPC.
The EFCC on July 22 arraigned Mr Idris and three others on 14-count charge bordering on misappropriation of N109.5 billion.
Haruna Abdullahi, acting executive chairman of FCT-IRS, says about 90 per cent of the residents do not file tax returns.
In a tweet on Friday, the rights group demanded the unconditional release of the editor, who was arrested alongside four other members of staff of the paper.
Mr Uwujaren said the former AGF and the three others would be arraigned before Justice Adeyemi Ajayi of a FCT High Court.
The presiding judge, Adenike Akinpelu, sentenced the defendant to six months in prison, with an option of N200,000 fine.
