Court: Abaribe, Produce Nnamdi Kanu Or Risk Jail

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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has asked the sureties for the yet-to-be found leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra to produce him or risk been thrown into jail.

Delivering her judgment, Tuesday, Justice Binta Nyako, who gave until 26th of June when hearing on the matter will resume,  granted the application of the counsel to Senator Abaribe that his client needs to be served an enrol notice to decide on the options given by the court in its earlier ruling.

The court had asked the sureties to come up with cause on why the N100 million bond they each deposited should not be forefeited on the failure to produce Nnamdi Kanu. It however advised the prosecution counsel to serve the defendants with the brief.

Enyinnaya Abaribe, the senator representing Abia North had offered to be one of the sureties for the Biafran agitator, a condition required before he was granted bail in 2017. The other sureties were a Jewish priest, El-Shalom and an accountant, Tobechi. Each were made to deposit a N100 million bond.

Nnamdi Kanu's whereabouts has yet remained unknown since the military invasion of his Umuahia hometown in September 2017 during the Operation Python Dance.

There have been counterclaims as to where he is, with his lawyer, Ejiofor stating that the military whisked him away.  The Nigerian Army has long denied this.

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