Abaribe Demands N10m Compensation Over Kanu’s Case.

The senator representing Abia South Senatorial District,
Enyinaya Abaribe, has filed an application before a Federal High
Court Abuja, requesting that the court compels the Chief of Army
Staff to either produce the leader of the Indigenous People Of
Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu, or pay the bail bond attached to his
release.

Abaribe is also asking the court to order the COAS to offset all
expenses he incurred in the cause of Nnamdi Kanu’s trial.

The lawmaker is also demanding an order for payment of damages
to the tune of 10 million Naira to him for the psychological trauma
which he says he went through, following the extra-judicial
self-help actions of the Army Chief of Staff.

Senator Abaribe is standing as surety for Mr Kanu, whom he
signed a bail bond of N100 million to secure bail for.

On October 17, the trial judge, Justice Binta had ordered that
Abaribe and the other sureties appear before her to show cause why
a bench warrant of arrest should not be granted against them and
that the lawmaker can only be excused if he produced Mr Kanu or be
to ready to forfeit the 100 million naira bail bond.

Abaribe predicated his application on the grounds that “out of
patriotic consideration of assisting the judicial process to defuse
the tension generated in the polity and with full belief that Mr
Nnamdi Kanu was carrying on his activities within the limits and
confines of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, he
offered to stand as surety for Mr Kanu.

He added that all attempts and efforts by him to contact Mr Kanu
by whatever means had failed completely and that nobody except the
Army can give any account of him.

The senator representing Abia South Senatorial District,
Enyinaya Abaribe, has filed an application before a Federal High
Court Abuja, requesting that the court compels the Chief of Army
Staff to either produce the leader of the Indigenous People Of
Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu, or pay the bail bond attached to his
release.

Abaribe is also asking the court to order the COAS to offset all
expenses he incurred in the cause of Nnamdi Kanu’s trial.

The lawmaker is also demanding an order for payment of damages
to the tune of 10 million Naira to him for the psychological trauma
which he says he went through, following the extra-judicial
self-help actions of the Army Chief of Staff.

Senator Abaribe is standing as surety for Mr Kanu, whom he
signed a bail bond of N100 million to secure bail for.

On October 17, the trial judge, Justice Binta had ordered that
Abaribe and the other sureties appear before her to show cause why
a bench warrant of arrest should not be granted against them and
that the lawmaker can only be excused if he produced Mr Kanu or be
to ready to forfeit the 100 million naira bail bond.

Abaribe predicated his application on the grounds that “out of
patriotic consideration of assisting the judicial process to defuse
the tension generated in the polity and with full belief that Mr
Nnamdi Kanu was carrying on his activities within the limits and
confines of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, he
offered to stand as surety for Mr Kanu.

He added that all attempts and efforts by him to contact Mr Kanu
by whatever means had failed completely and that nobody except the
Army can give any account of him.