ABUJA – The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, deferred further proceeding on the treasonable felony charge against the ‘missing’ leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, till Febraury 20, 2018.
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Trial Justice Binta Nyako adjourned the matter at the instance of the Federal Government which notified the court of the absence of its prosecutor, Mr. Shuaibu Labaran who is currently attending a seminar outside the country.
Consequently, the prosecution, in a letter to the court, applied for the case to be adjourned till next year for continuation of trial and to enable those that stood surety for the IPOB leader whose whereabouts has remained unknown, to produce him before the court.
Already, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe who was one of the three persons that stood surety for Kanu has applied to be discharged by the court, insisting that he lacks the capacity to produce the defendant for continuation of his trial.
The court had on October 17, ordered Abaribe, a Jewish High Priest, Emmanu El- Salom Oka BenMadu, and an accountant, Tochukwu Uchendu, to produce the IPOB leader or face jail term/forfeiture of their bail bond.
It will be reviewed that Justice Nyako had in a decision on April 25, discharged Kanu on safeguard after he had put in a year and seven months in confinement, however the court affirmed four other master Biafra instigators who are confronting trial with him-Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Bright Chimezie-to stay in jail custody.To secure Kanu's discharge, Abaribe, El-Shalom and Uchendu, on April 28, marked an endeavor to guarantee participation of the first respondent who was allowed abandon wellbeing ground, in court for his trial.Meawhile, in his crisp application, Abaribe who is speaking to Abia South Senatorial District, connected for harms against the Nigerian Army.He is supplicating the court to constrain the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.- Gen. Tukur Buratai to pay N10million to him for the mental injury he has experienced after additional legal self improvement activities of the Army he said prompted Kanu's dissapearance.Abaribe similarly connected for a request convincing Buratai to balance all costs he brought about in the reason for the trial of the IPOB leader.The administrator asked the court to renounce the endeavor he went up against benefit of Kanu and release him as a surety in the matter.He told the court that the Nigerian Army had throughout military operations in Abia state from September 11, went by Kanu's living arrangement, including that it was accounted for in the media that there was shooting and fracas amid the visit.He said Kanu "has not been seen again nor come to on telephone by the Applicant, nor is he detailed in any news media as observed by any persom, nor put forth any expression on any issue".Abaribe told the court that he "needs ability to deliver a man expressed by the first Respondent to be an individual from a fear monger association, or any persin whom the first Respondent is accounted for to be keen on his whereabouts including the aftermat of the military operations in Abia state which initiated about eleventh September, 2017".Specifically, Abaribe is asking the court for, "A request of this respectable court releasing the candidate as surety of the first/second respondent, and releasing the recognizance went into by the candidate, and to release the candidate from the whole frequency of the safeguard of Nnamdi Kanu-the first litigant/second respondent in control No. FHC/Abj/CR/383/2015: Federal Republic of Nigeria v Nnamdi Kanu, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawisi.However, following a counter-oath that was recorded by FG, Justice Nyako kept up that Abaribe should right off the bat deliver Kanu before he could be permitted to pull back as a surety in the case.In his movement, Abaribe appealed to God for, "A request of the court convincing the Chief of Army Staff, on inability to create first litigant/second respondent, to pay to the court the whole in the safeguard security prior executed by the candidate in the interest of first respondent/second respondent."An request of the court convincing the Chief of Army Staff to create first respondent/second respondent under the steady gaze of the court as well as to disclose as per the general inclination of the court the condition encompassing his whereabouts.As well as, "A request of court convincing the Chief of Army Staff to demonstrate cause why the Attorney General of the Federation ought not be constrained to start hatred procedures against him for his additional legal self improvement leads that have clearly baffled the procedures and course of organization of equity and which activities have conveyed the court to some disparagement and its energy seems worthless and also setting the candidate in a repaired position."Abaribe predicated his application in light of the fact that "Out of devoted thought of helping the legal procedure to defuse the overheating as of now produced in the country and with full conviction that first respondent was carrying on his exercises inside the cutoff points and limits of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, candidate offered to stand surety for him and went into recognizance and executed the safeguard security on his behalf".He demanded that exclusive the Nigerian Army could deliver Kanu since it was fighters that had last contact with him.According to him, "The circumstance was to such an extent that candidate could no longer the situation being what it is play out his commitment under the surety."As at the season of Chief of Army Staff requested the sending of his men and material to strongly and viciously attack and encompassed the town and living arrangement of the first respondent/second respondent previously mentioned, he had each information of the pendency of this charge and that his direct had the most likely impact of keeping the first litigant from going to court, to proceed with his trial", he affirmed.
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