Two separate court judgements will be delivered on cases involving Nigerian boxing ambassador, Bash Ali (OON) and the federal government officials this week.
The first judgement will come up on Monday at the court of Magistrate Abibat Bello at the Magistrate Court,Dutse Alhaji, Abuja. Magistrate Bello will give judgement in the case of illegal trespass instituted by the Commissioner of Police and Nexim Bank against Bash Ali, the World Boxing Federation (WBF) cruiserweight champion.
The second judgement comes up in the court of Hon Justice Kawu at High Court, in Kubwa, Abuja, in the N1billion assault case instituted by the ageless boxer against the Minister of Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung and the Inspector General of Police.
The Edo state born boxer alleged in this case that the Minister ordered his security guards to brutalise him in his office at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja. He is demanding the sum of N1 billion damages from the injury he sustained from the assault which allegedly kept him in the hospital for days.
Ali,who is gunning to become the oldest boxer to win a world title through the Guinness Book of World Records Championship, told PM EXPRESS at the weekend that the two cases were connected to high level corruption in Nigerian sports and deliberate attempt by officials to scuttle his dream.
”On January 7, 2014, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) through the National Sports Commission, inaugurated the Bash Ali Boxing Project Local Organizing Committee to organize in Nigeria the first Guinness World Record Boxing Championship fight in Africa, in a transparentmanner. Nexim Bank and Bank of Industry were mandated to fund the historic event. Fight money was deposited at the Central Bank of Nigeria. Time to release the money for the fight, corruptiontook over. Nexim Bank demanded for a bribe and I turned down the request. For having the guts to say no, the banks and the Mnister of Sport have done everything and anything possible to jail me,” the boxing ambassador alleged
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