Aloy Ejimakor and the legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, will move for his bail pending the determination of his trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Kanu has been detained by the Department of State Services, DSS, on orders of the Nigerian Government since June 2021 when he was subjected to extraordinary rendition from Kenya back to the country.
Upon his return, the Appeal Court discharged and acquitted Kanu of all charges bordering on terrorism but in December 2023, the Supreme Court had upturned the ruling and returned the case to the Abuja Federal High Court for continuation of trial.
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NEWSTerrorism: IPOB lawyers to move for Nnamdi Kanu’s bail on Feb 26Published on February 23, 2024By Seun Opejobi
Aloy Ejimakor and the legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, will move for his bail pending the determination of his trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Kanu has been detained by the Department of State Services, DSS, on orders of the Nigerian Government since June 2021 when he was subjected to extraordinary rendition from Kenya back to the country.
Upon his return, the Appeal Court discharged and acquitted Kanu of all charges bordering on terrorism but in December 2023, the Supreme Court had upturned the ruling and returned the case to the Abuja Federal High Court for continuation of trial.
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed February 26 for the resumed terrorism trial of Kanu.
However, DAILY POST learnt that IPOB’s legal team is anchoring Kanu’s bail on his lack of privacy during visitations with his lawyers which adversely impacts on his constitutional right to counsel and adequacy of facility for the preparation of his defense; he had already spent a cumulative of fifty months or over 4 years in “pretrial detention,” and his traumatizing abduction in Kenya and the infamous extraordinary rendition to Nigeria.
The bail will also based on Kanu’s “life-threatening medical conditions, namely: the heart ailment, the hypertension and the potassium deficiency.”
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NEWSTerrorism: IPOB lawyers to move for Nnamdi Kanu’s bail on Feb 26Published on February 23, 2024By Seun Opejobi
Aloy Ejimakor and the legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, will move for his bail pending the determination of his trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Kanu has been detained by the Department of State Services, DSS, on orders of the Nigerian Government since June 2021 when he was subjected to extraordinary rendition from Kenya back to the country.
Upon his return, the Appeal Court discharged and acquitted Kanu of all charges bordering on terrorism but in December 2023, the Supreme Court had upturned the ruling and returned the case to the Abuja Federal High Court for continuation of trial.
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed February 26 for the resumed terrorism trial of Kanu.
However, DAILY POST learnt that IPOB’s legal team is anchoring Kanu’s bail on his lack of privacy during visitations with his lawyers which adversely impacts on his constitutional right to counsel and adequacy of facility for the preparation of his defense; he had already spent a cumulative of fifty months or over 4 years in “pretrial detention,” and his traumatizing abduction in Kenya and the infamous extraordinary rendition to Nigeria.
The bail will also based on Kanu’s “life-threatening medical conditions, namely: the heart ailment, the hypertension and the potassium deficiency.”
In a Court document sighted by DAILY POST correspondent with suit no: FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, IPOB’s legal team said “on the basis of the foregoing, we respectfully urge Your Lordship to good for the Applicant and admit him to bail on liberal and non-excessive terms.”
In the motion on Notice brought in pursuant to Sections 6(6), 35 and 36(5), Sections 158, 161 and 162, Administration of Criminal Justice Act; the legal team will pray the court for “an order of this Honourable Court admitting the Applicant/Defendant to bail pending the determination of his trial.
“AND for such further order or orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.
Kanu’s brother, Prince Emmanuel deposed an affidavit in support of the motion for the IPOB leader’s bail.