Nigeria: Judge Orders Abaribe to Produce Kanu in Court or Lose N100m Bond

18 October 2017

Abuja — Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja Tuesday ordered Senator Enyinaya Abaribe and two others to appear in court and explain why the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu was absent from court to face trial, warning that they stood to lose their bail bonds of N100 million each if they failed to produce him in court.

Senator Abaribe, Immanuel Okabemadu and Tochukwu Uchendu had stood as sureties for Kanu as part of his bail conditions, and guaranteed that he would attend his trial after the bail was granted by the court to attend to his failing health.

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