Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday, fulfilled the bail conditions granted by the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The bail condition was perfected through the presence of the Chairman, South East Senate caucus and former Deputy Governor of Abia State, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Jewish High Chief Priest, Immanuu-El Shalom and a Chartered Accountant residing in Abuja, Tochukwu Uchendu.
“Nnamdi Kanu’s bail has been perfected,” said his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Friday afternoon. “Nnamdi Kanu has met his bail conditions.”
A source knowledgeable about the meeting disclosed that: “First, the caucus agreed to work as a team to secure Kanu’s release.
“It was agreed that the leader of the caucus and senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe or the senator representing the IPOB leader’s Abia Central Senatorial District, Senator Theodore Orji, should take him on bail.”
The source said the senators made contact with Mr. Kanu’s lawyer, Mr. Ejiofor, last night, soon after they agreed to help the IPOB leader secure bail.
The source added there are spirited efforts to ensure the IPOB leader regained his freedom on Friday, and expressed confidence that other conditions, especially one on the Jewish surety, would be perfected.
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Meanwhile, wild jubilation have engulfed parts of the country, following the news of the release of the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, from Kuje Prison, where he has spent months, following his arrest in October 2015, by men of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Eye-witnesses said that in Onitsha, Aba, and other parts of the East, and Igbo indigenes in all parts of the country, has erupted in jubilation over the news, which has already gone viral.
Kanu, who was freed after meeting his bail conditions which IPOB, with the aide of some prominent Igbo people, including Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and Eyinnaya Abaribe, who was actually one of the sureties that signed his bail bond, was driven out of the prison by former Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka.
A Jewish Rabbi had earlier been flown from Port Harcourt, Rivers state, to sign the bail as part of the condition given by Justice Binta Murtala Nyako, for granting him bail, last week Tuesday.
Nyako had told him to present three sureties – one of whom must be a serving senator; the second, a Jewish leader, and the third, a highly respected Nigerian.
All the conditions were met on Friday.
In October 2015, a magistrate court in Abuja discharged and acquitted Kanu of all charges of terrorism brought against him by the federal government.
But the government through its agent – the Department of State Services (DSS) filed another suit against him at the federal high court, Abuja, while keeping him in detention.
Adeniyi Ademola, another justice of the federal high court, Abuja, also ordered the unconditional release of Kanu owing to the reluctance of the DSS to file a charge against him at the time, but he was not released.
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