By Akinwale Kasali
Incarcerated Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu would see his Lawyers move for his Bail Application on Monday, February 26th, 2024, pending the determination of his trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
It was gathered that the proposed release on bail for Kanu will be based on “life-threatening medical conditions, namely: the heart ailment, the hypertension and the potassium deficiency.”
Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Security, DSS, since his repatriation from Kenya in 2021 during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The IPOB Leader is facing trial bordering on terrorism among others but the Appeal Court discharged and acquitted him of all charges.
However, in December 2023, the Supreme Court overturned 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 resumption of Kanu’s terrorism trial.
Feelers from the IPOB Camp has it that the lawyers are working for bail based on his lack of privacy during visitations with his legal team, which adversely affected his constitutional right to counsel and adequacy of facility for the preparation of his defense.
The lawyers will also argue that he had already spent a cumulative period of 50 months or over four years in “pretrial detention”.
According to the court document sighted by Vanguard, with suit no: FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, the IPOB leader’s lawyers said, “On the basis of the foregoing, we respectfully urge Your Lordship to 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), and sections 158, 161 and 162 of the 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.
