Naira Marley and Sam Larry, have been granted bail by a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State.
Marley and Sam Larry, however, have to provide three sureties with a sum of N20 million to process their release.
The magistrate had ordered the remand of Naira Marley and Sam Larry in police custody for 21 days over the death of 27-year-old Mohbad who died earlier in September.
The magistrate, Adeola Olatunbosun told the defendants to submit their passports and ordered that they are to report weekly to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti.
In her ruling, Olatunbosun stated: “As part of the bail conditions, the defendants are to surrender their passports and make weekly appearances at the State Criminal Investigation Department.”
The duo had filed a fundamental rights suit to challenge their continued detention over the death of Mohbad.
Joined as defendants in the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos were the police and the Lagos magistrate, Adeola Olatunbosun, who ordered their remand in police custody for 21 days.