Barring last minute change, an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan will on Tuesday hear the bail application for an ex-wife of the Ooni of Ife, Olori Prophetess Naomi Silekunola, proprietor of an Ibadan based radio station, Oriyomi Hamzat and the principal of Islamic High School, Mr Fasasi.
The trio is facing trial following the death of 35 children at Islamic High School, Bashorun, venue of an ill-fated Children Funfair carnival
The case will come up at Court 8, Ring Road, Ibadan presided over by Justice Olawoyin.
It was however gathered the State has also filled a counter application against the bail.
Recall that the trio spent the Christmas and New Year holiday at the Agodi Correctional facility where a Chief Magistrate Court ordered them to be kept since last year when the matter came up at the Magistrate court, Iyaganku, Ibadan.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olabisi Ogunkanmi, adjourned the case to January 13 for mention while urging the DPP to act fast in sending his advice.
It was gathered that the lawyers to the trio filed summons for their bail last week at the State High Court and will on Tuesday January 7 argue their applications at the Court.
The former queen and the two others were remanded in Agodi Correctional Centre when they were arraigned at the magistrate court after the incident.
Although, Olori Naomi organised the event through her Wings Foundation, Hamzat is the proprietor of Agidigbo FM, which publicised the children empowerment and picnic programme prominently. Fasasi is the principal of Islamic High School, Basorun, Ibadan, the venue of the programme.
The programme was scheduled to hold on Wednesday December 18 with 5,000 expected participants but a crowd that exceeded the number besieged the venue, which led to a stampede during which 35 persons, mostly children, died.
The trio was later arrested by the police with others who had been released after investigation.
The three persons were taken to a Magistrate Court on December 24 and, which ordered them to be remanded in Agodi Correctional Centre pending the receipt of advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
The case has generated much interest due to the controversy among fans of Naomi and Hamzat.
