Our Correspondent
A federal high court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the arrest of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu for being absent to attend hearings nearly two years after his release on bail.
Kanu, was arrested in October 2015 on charges of criminal conspiracy and belonging to an illegal society, and this followed a deployment to the region in 2017 to curb IPOB’s campaign stoked tensions, as did Kanu’s arrest.
He was granted bail on medical grounds in April of that year but has not been seen in Nigeria since an army raid on his house five months later. Kanu has not attended court dates since then but images of him in Israel surfaced on social media in October last year.
“In the absence of any reasonable explanation for his absence, I hereby revoke his bail and order that a bench warrant be issued for his arrest,” Judge Binta Nyako said at the Federal High Court in the capital Abuja.