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SENATOR representing
Abia South, Eyinnaya
Abaribe yesterday accused
the Chief of Army, Lt. – Gen.
Tukur Buratai, of frustrating
his role as a surety for the
bail granted the leader of
the proscribed Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB,
Nnamdi Kanu, by a Federal
High Court in Abuja.
Abaribe stated this in
a fresh motion he filed
before the court where
he and Kanu’s two other
sureties had been ordered
to explain the IPOB leader’s
whereabouts.
The senator had earlier
filed a motion seeking to be
discharged as Kanu’s surety,
but the trial judge, Justice
Binta Nyako directed during
the previous proceedings of
October 17, that the senator
could not withdraw his
surety-ship until Kanu was
produced before the court.
Kanu, who is being
prosecuted alongside others on charges bordering on
treasonable felony, was
yesterday absent from court
for the second time after the
alleged invasion of his home
in Abia State by soldiers on
September 14, since when he
had been declared missing
by his family.
But Abaribe was
physically present in court
yesterday, stating in his
fresh motion filed through
his lawyer, Chukwuma
Machukwu Ume (SAN), on
November 17 that he should
not be held responsible for
non-availability of Kanu
to attend court for his trial,
but alleged that Kanu’s
unknown whereabouts was
caused by the “whimsical,
capricious, subversive and
extra-judicial self-help”
embarked upon by the Chief
of Army Staff.
The senator maintained
that the Chief of Army Staff
was aware of the pending
charges against Kanu when
he allegedly deployed
soldiers to “forcefully and
violently” invade the IPOB
leader’s home in Afaraukwu
Ibeku, Umuahia, in Abia
State on September 14.
He noted that the conducts
of the COAS on the
deployment of the soldiers
were with “most probable
effect” of preventing him
(Kanu) from attending court
to continue his trial.
He said he opted to
be Kanu’s surety out of
“patriotic consideration of
assisting the judicial process
to defuse the tension already
generated in the polity.”
His lawyer, Ume, argued
in the motion that the Chief
of Army Staff’s “extra –
judicial self – help conduct
obviously frustrated the
proceedings and course of
administration of justice
(in the bail and bail bond
granted and executed in
Charge No. FHC/ABJ/
CR/383 /2015).”
The lawyer maintained
that the “actions have
brought the honourable
court to some ridicule and
its power appear nugatory
as well as placing in a fixed
up position.”
The senator therefore
sought in the fresh motion
prayed for an order
directing the Chief of Army
Staff to explain to the court
why the Attorney-General
of the Federation should
not “be compelled to
initiate contempt charges /
proceedings against him for
his extra-judicial self – help
conducts.”
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SENATOR representing
Abia South, Eyinnaya
Abaribe yesterday accused
the Chief of Army, Lt. – Gen.
Tukur Buratai, of frustrating
his role as a surety for the
bail granted the leader of
the proscribed Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB,
Nnamdi Kanu, by a Federal
High Court in Abuja.
Abaribe stated this in
a fresh motion he filed
before the court where
he and Kanu’s two other
sureties had been ordered
to explain the IPOB leader’s
whereabouts.
The senator had earlier
filed a motion seeking to be
discharged as Kanu’s surety,
but the trial judge, Justice
Binta Nyako directed during
the previous proceedings of
October 17, that the senator
could not withdraw his
surety-ship until Kanu was
produced before the court.
Kanu, who is being
prosecuted alongside others on charges bordering on
treasonable felony, was
yesterday absent from court
for the second time after the
alleged invasion of his home
in Abia State by soldiers on
September 14, since when he
had been declared missing
by his family.
But Abaribe was
physically present in court
yesterday, stating in his
fresh motion filed through
his lawyer, Chukwuma
Machukwu Ume (SAN), on
November 17 that he should
not be held responsible for
non-availability of Kanu
to attend court for his trial,
but alleged that Kanu’s
unknown whereabouts was
caused by the “whimsical,
capricious, subversive and
extra-judicial self-help”
embarked upon by the Chief
of Army Staff.
The senator maintained
that the Chief of Army Staff
was aware of the pending
charges against Kanu when
he allegedly deployed
soldiers to “forcefully and
violently” invade the IPOB
leader’s home in Afaraukwu
Ibeku, Umuahia, in Abia
State on September 14.
He noted that the conducts
of the COAS on the
deployment of the soldiers
were with “most probable
effect” of preventing him
(Kanu) from attending court
to continue his trial.
He said he opted to
be Kanu’s surety out of
“patriotic consideration of
assisting the judicial process
to defuse the tension already
generated in the polity.”
His lawyer, Ume, argued
in the motion that the Chief
of Army Staff’s “extra –
judicial self – help conduct
obviously frustrated the
proceedings and course of
administration of justice
(in the bail and bail bond
granted and executed in
Charge No. FHC/ABJ/
CR/383 /2015).”
The lawyer maintained
that the “actions have
brought the honourable
court to some ridicule and
its power appear nugatory
as well as placing in a fixed
up position.”
The senator therefore
sought in the fresh motion
prayed for an order
directing the Chief of Army
Staff to explain to the court
why the Attorney-General
of the Federation should
not “be compelled to
initiate contempt charges /
proceedings against him for
his extra-judicial self – help
conducts.”
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