The Federal High Court in Abuja
has asked the three sureties in the trial of leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to produce the defendant or risk going to prison.
Kanu, who is currently facing
trial for alleged treason, was required to be produced in court by his
sureties.
Kanu’s sureties were Senator
Eyinnaya Abaribe, a Jewish priest, Immanuu-El Shalom, and an accountant
resident in Abuja, Tochukwu Uchendu.
However, the IPOB leader has not
been seen after since September 2017.
Justice Binta Nyako had asked the
sureties to produce the defendant.
At the resumption of the matter,
however, a counsel for the sureties, Chukwuma Machukwu Umeh, a Senior Advocate
of Nigeria, said his client had not been served with court papers relating to
the order made by the judge.
He therefore made a fresh
application for an order of court demanding that the prosecution serves the
sureties with copies of the order, as made by the court.
In his response, the prosecution
counsel, Shaibu Labaran, urged the court to resist sacrificing the demand for
justice on the altar of technicalities.
Labaran countered the submission
of the defence that an enrolled order was necessary to ensure compliance to the
instructions made in court.
He described the fresh
application as a “conspiracy” to set back the matter before the court and
demanded its dismissal.
The presiding judge, Justice
Nyako granted the request by the defense, but noted that the application was an
evidence of their lack of readiness to proceed with the matter.
“What is clear is that you are
not ready,” said Mrs. Nyako.
“The sureties are to be served
with the order of this court: to show why they should not forfeit their bond or
to produce the defendant in the next adjourned date, with the alternative to go
to prison,” she added.
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