A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday denied bail to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and his two other co-accused.
Kanu, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu are being prosecuted on six counts of treasonable felony, unlawful possession of firearms and other offences bordering on their agitation for secession of the Republic of Biafra from Nigeria.
Justice John Tsoho, in rejecting the accused persons’ bail application on Friday, held that they were not entitled to bail as they failed to challenge the allegation by the prosecution that they would not continue to commit the alleged crime for which they were being prosecuted if granted bail.
Earlier before the ruling was delivered on Friday, the lawyer, who had on January 25, 2016 argued the bail application on behalf of the accused persons, Nnoruka Udechukwu (SAN), withdrew from the case, following a handwritten letter sent to Justice Tsoho by Kanu from his custody in Kuje Prison.
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