Judge orders FFK, Abaribe, to pay N100m each over Kanu’s absence in court
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja, has ordered that Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, Femi Fani-Kayode and Emmanuel Shallom Ben, all of whom stood sureties for the bail of the leader of the now proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu
in April last year, pay the sum of N100m each into the court’s account
for their inability to produce the missing Biafran leader who went
missing in September last year.
Recall that in April 2017, Justice Nyako granted Kanu bail. Kanu was
arrested in October 2015 and has been standing trial on charges of
treasonable felony.
Kanu's trial had been stalled since he went missing after a military
invasion of his home in Abia state in September last year. Kanu however
resurfaced in Israel in October this year. He has vowed to return to
Nigeria to continue his trial.
The three sureties who guaranteed his bail had been made to sign a
bail bond of N100m each which was backed by their landed assets whose
documents were deposited in court. Justice Nyako this morning amended
the conditions of the bails she gave in April 2017. The three sureties
are now required to deposit cash of N100m in the bank account of the
court. She ruled that the three sureties had two months to pay the sum
of N100m each into the court’s account.
The judge reiterated that the order directing the sureties to pay the money was an order of interim forfeiture.
She fixed March 28 for the hearing of the motions filed by the
sureties to challenging the duties imposed on them to produce the IPOB
leader.
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