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"Murder, rape and narcotics are now bailable offences"
The highest court of the land by a 5-2 Majority decision on Thursday struck down Section 96(7) of Act 30 declaring the law on non-bailable offences unconstitutional.
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The ruling follows a suit filed by a private lawyer, Martin Kpebu on 16 February 2015, where he asked the apex court to declare that Section 96(7) of the Criminal Procedure and Juvenile Justice Act is unconstitutional.
He argued that if a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, then there is no need for an accused to be kept on remand while the case is tried.
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