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Again, court denies Kanu bail

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has again dismissed the application filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, seeking an order setting aside the 2017 order revoking his bail for alleged abscondment from trial.

Presiding judge Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling on Monday, May 20, 2024, also rejected Kanu’s request to be transferred to Kuje Correctional Centre in the event that his application for an order vacating the revocation order of his bail was overruled.

Justice Nyako, who said the court had severally decided on the issue of the IPOB leader’s bail plea, declared that the only option left for Kanu was to appeal the ruling.

The judge held that any further application on this ground would be regarded as an abuse of court process.

Court threatens to adjourn Nnamdi Kanu’s trial indefinitely

She said: “I have found and held that the present place of applicant’s detention is a proper place.

“Any further application will be regarded as an abuse of court process.”

Justice Nyako, who thereafter ordered Kanu to enter his trial, adjourned the matter until June 19 and June 20 for the commencement of the trial.

The judge had, on April 17, fixed today for ruling on the defendant’s application to either vacate the bail revocation, be put on house arrest, or be transferred to Kuje Correctional Centre.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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