Ike Ekweremadu, Nigeria’s deputy senate president, has joined a Port Harcourt-based Jewish Rabbi, Immanu-El Shalom, to perfect the bail condition of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
Ekweremadu was accompanied to the court premises by Senator Enyainnaya Abaraibe. The two senators have been involved in the process of perfecting the bail conditions for Mr. Kanu, a hugely popular Biafran secessionist activist.
In a controversial move, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, last week, ordered that three sureties, including a serving senator and a prominent Jewish religious leader should each provide N100 million and a landed property in Abuja for Kanu’s bail. The judge said she was granting the bail on health reasons.
According to news accounts, the property documents had been certified at the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, before the team went to the court.
Meanwhile, there are reports that if all goes as planned, Nnamdi Kanu may be released from Kuje Prison on Friday, April 28, 2017.
Kanu’s stringent bail conditions forbid him from granting interviews while his trial is ongoing and that he must not be in a gathering of more than 10 people.
The judge, who has been slammed by IPOB and human rights activists, threatened to revoke the Biafran activist’s bail if any of her orders are flouted.
The sureties, the court said will also make available N100 million bail bond each and a landed property in Abuja.
