Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected Nnamdi Kanu’s request to reinstate his revoked bail and transfer him from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) to either house arrest or prison. On Monday, the judge stated that Nnamdi Kanu had previously brought the same request before her, but it was dismissed due to lack of merit.
In her ruling on Kanu’s request, Justice Nyako stated that Kanu had indeed jumped the bail previously granted to him and had escaped out of the country. She also mentioned that the sureties who stood for him in the earlier bail had applied to be discharged because they could not locate Kanu and did not know his whereabouts.
According to Justice Nyako, the only option left for Kanu was to go to the Court of Appeal and exercise his right of appeal. She disagreed with Kanu’s lead counsel that the Supreme Court held that the earlier bail granted to him ought not to have been revoked, adding that she had perused the Supreme Court judgment copy and did not see the claim of the lawyer.