BEVERLY HILLS, August 25, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government has asked the Federal High Court, Abuja, to revoke the bail granted to Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), who is being prosecuted along with others on treasonable felony charges.
The prosecution made this request in an application it filed before the court and served on Kanu on Friday which was released to journalists in Abuja by the Special Assistant to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) on Media and Publicity, MSalihu Isah.
The Federal Government sought the revocation of Kanu’s bail on the grounds that the IPOB leader had flouted the terms and conditions of the bail while Kanu had, in an application filed on July 1, 2017, urged the court to vary the conditions of the bail granted him.
THEWILL recalls that Justice Binta Nyako had, in her ruling delivered on April 25, granted bail to Kanu prohibiting him from being seen in a crowd exceeding 10 persons, granting press interviews and holding or attending rallies.
In his application filed on July 1, 2017, Kanu, via his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, maintained that parts of the bail conditions violated his constitutional rights saying that the undesirable bail terms and conditions were contained in paragraphs 2(vii) and (viii) of the court’s ruling granting bail to his client on April 25.
But the Federal Government, in its fresh application, asked the court to revoke the bail granted Kanu and order his immediate arrest by the police alleging acts of serial violation of the bail conditions imposed by the court.
It stated that the essence of the bail, which was for Kanu to look after his health, had been defeated arguing that instead of using the opportunity of his bail to attend to his health needs, Kanu went ahead to inaugurate a security outfit known as the Biafra Security Service.
The prosecution said this constituted a threat to national security and cited an instance of how Kanu allegedly incited his followers “to disrupt, disallow and boycott elections in south East states, starting with Anambra State governorship election scheduled to hold on November 18, 2017, if the Federal Government failed to hold a referendum for the realisation of the state of Biafra nation.”
