Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the request of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, for bail or to be moved from the Department of State Security (DSS) custody to a prison or house arrest.
Justice Nyako further held that the same request had been brought before her by Nnamdi Kanu and it was dismissed for lack of merit.
Delivering her ruling on the bail application, Justice Nyako held that she found as a fact that Kanu jumped the bail when he was earlier granted.
Justice Nyako further held that the sureties who stood for him in the earlier bail had applied to be discharged and had been discharged on the grounds that they could not locate Kanu and did not know his whereabouts.
The judge also held that the only option left for Kanu was to go to the Court of Appeal and exercise his right of appeal.
The judge further disagreed with Kanu’s lead lawyer that the Supreme Court held that the earlier bail granted him ought not to have been revoked, adding that she had gone through the Supreme Court judgment copy and did not see the claim of Kanu’s lawyer.
