A federal high court, sitting in Abuja has denied pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu, and three other persons who are accused of treason bail.
In a ruling on an application for bail filed by Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Kanu’s counsel, on Thursday 12/1/2016, Judge Binta Nyako, held that the offences the defendants Kanu, Benjamin Nmadubugwu, Chidiebere Onwudiwe and David Nwawusi were charged with were not entirely bailable.
Kanu, who leads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been held in detention without trial since October 2015.
Mr Kanu, who had been based in the UK where he was director of the banned Radio Biafra, was arrested when he landed in Lagos last year.
A month before he was detained he was filmed at a meeting of the World Igbo Congress in the US city of Los Angeles soliciting for arms.
Radio Diaspora recalls that in December 2015, Adeniyi Ademola, justice of the federal high court, granted Kanu unconditional bail, but the Department of State Services refused to release him.
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