Veteran marked 59th birthday behind bars in Kuje Prison

16:38 - 03 March 2015

Bash Ali was arrested by security operatives in February after he got involved in a disagreement with the General Manager of a Nigerian bank

Veteran Nigerian boxer Bash Ali who was arrested by security operatives last month over stories involving money, marked one year behind bars in Kuje Prisons.

Ali is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday at the Senior Magistrate Court on allegations of ''criminal trespass, obstruction in public way, wrongful restraint and criminal intimidation''

He wrote on his birthday on February 27: 'GEJ, Feb. 27 was my birthday and I spent it in jail in Kuje Prison because I said no to corruption at NEXM Bank. If this is what I have to do to make Nigeria better and ensure that my dream to rewrite boxing come to reality so be it.'