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The Federal High Court in Abuja today ordered the three sureties of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, including Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, to pay N100 million each for their inability to produce the missing IPOB leader.
The court ordered that the money must be paid within two months from the date of the ruling.
Justice Binta Nyako also varied the bail conditions upon which the leader of the proscribed IPOB was admitted.
She made the variation in a ruling on the conditions of the bail she had granted Kanu in April 2017.
Abaribe and the other sureties had been made to sign a bail bond of N100 million each, which was backed by their landed assets whose documents were deposited in court.
The judge said with this amendment, the sureties were now required to deposit cash of N100 million into the court’s bank account.
“The order directing the sureties to pay the money is an order of interim forfeiture,” she said.
The sureties had argued that Kanu’s disappearance was not unconnected with the invasion of his home by the military and not orchestrated by them.
The military had in a special operation clashed with IPOB members in Afara-Ukwu, Umuahia, in Abia State, on September 14, 2017 leading to Kanu’s escape from the country.
Kanu and three others are being tried on charges of treasonable felony.
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