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The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the three sureties of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, including Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, to within two months pay the sum of N100m each into the court’s account for their inability to produce the missing Biafran activist in court.
In a ruling which was amended by Justice Binta Nyako she gave the order on the conditions of the bail she had in April 2017, granted Kanu.
The three sureties who guaranteed his bail had been made to sign a bail bond of N100m each which was backed by their landed assets whose documents were deposited in court.
But with the amendment ordered by the court on Wednesday, they are now required to deposit cash of N100m in the bank account of the court.
The judge reiterated that the order directing the sureties to pay the money was an order of interim forfeiture.
It would be recalled that Kanu is being prosecuted before the court on charges of treasonable felony.
His trial had been earlier separated from that of his co-accused following his disappearance after a military invasion of his home in Afara-Ukwu, Umuahia, in Abia State, on September 14, 2017
She fixed March 28 for the hearing of the motions filed by the sureties to challenging the duties imposed on them to produce the IPOB leader.