An Abuja Federal High Court on
Tuesday ordered counsel to the elusive leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu’, Ifeanyi Ejiofor to produce his client.
Justice Binta Nyako ordered
Ejiofor to produce the elusive IPOB leader during the next adjournment date of
March 28, or for his sureties to explain his whereabouts.
The judge gave the order,
following an application for adjournment of the trial made by the prosecuting
counsel, Mr Shuaibu Labaran.
Kanu was admitted to bail on
April 25, 2017 and the Chairman, South East Senate caucus, Sen. Enyinnaya
Abaribe, a Jewish High Chief Priest, Immanuu-El Shalom and a Chartered
Accountant, Tochukwu Uchendu signed his bail bond.
Since he was granted bail, the
separatist leader has not appeared in court and his counsel had repeatedly told
the court that his client was in the custody of the Nigerian Army.
Justice Nyako had earlier granted
an application seeking to separate Kanu’s charges from that of the other
defendants, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi.
The judge granted the application
after non of Kanu’s co-defendants raised an objection.
Labaran’s reason for seeking
seperation of trial was due to Kanu’s refusal to appear in court.
Kanu and his co-defendants are
standing trial on a five-count charge bordering on felony.
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