Court rejects fresh bail request for Nnamdi Kanu

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, rejected a fresh application for bail by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, pending the determination of the treasonable felony charge preferred against him by the Federal Government.

Also, the trial judge, Justice Binta, refused to grant Kanu’s request to be either transferred to prison custody or placed on house arrest.

Nyako disclosed that the court noted that Kanu had jumped an earlier bail granted him, adding that his sureties at the time had approached the court and applied to be discharged from the case after the IPOB leader’s escape from the country.

She said the sureties, in their applications, claimed ignorance of his whereabouts the court was compelled to order the forfeiture of their N100 million bail bonds, a decision that is still pending before the Court of Appeal.

She urged Kanu to take the matter before the appellate court, having his request for bail on several occasions, warning that any attempt by Kanu’s legal team to file similar applications before the court would be regarded as a gross abuse of the judicial process.

On Kanu’s continued detention in the facility of the Department of State Services, DSS, Nyako ordered the security agency to always grant him access to his team of lawyers, not exceeding five persons on every visiting day.

Furthermore, she ordered that Kanu must be given “a clean place” to consult with his lawyers at the DSS detention facility, adding that the detainee must also be granted access to a doctor of his choice.