The British Police has kicked against the bail granted the former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, by the United Arab Emirates court sitting in Dubai.
Metropolitan Police authorities, while responding to an electronic mail sent by our Correspondent, stated that it was against the rule of law for the Dubai judge to release the former governor at the time he was expected to be extradited to the United Kingdom to face charges involving multiple frauds.
Furthermore, the British Police said that it will challenge the court ruling that granted Mr. Ibori a bail on health grounds without following due process.
Registering its grievances over the sudden and unwarranted freedom granted the former governor, thus making him a free man on the street of Dubai, the Met Police promised that the police will be watching Ibori so as to make it uneasy for him to flee the country.
In the electronic mail, the United Kingdom authorities noted that they will do everything to frustrate plans by Mr. James Ibori and his political associates to make him return to Nigeria a free man without first being taken to London to face the consequences of the criminal offences he committed while he was governor of Delta State.
A United Arab Emirates court had last week granted the bail application of the former governor who was remanded in Dubai prison after he lost his extradition appeal against the United Kingdom police in June last year.
Meanwhile, a source from Dubai has declared former governor James Ibori was only granted a temporary bail based on his bad health condition.
The source told our Correspondent that the bail is just to allow the former Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have access to medical attention from medical specialists in the country.
Asked if the rumours of his possible return to Nigeria were true, our source said there was no agreement as such that James Ibori could go back to Nigeria, stressing that he still has a case to answer in Dubai while his extradition process was still on.