Court Update: Today's court case for the bail Application of the 4 Biafra Activists has been adjourned

Court Update: Today's court case for the bail Application of the 4 Biafra Activists has been adjourned .

Written by Alex Okeke 
IPOB Writer

13/04/2018
 

IPOB COURT CASE

 The case for the bail Application of the Four Biafra activists, Mazi Benjamin Madubugwu, Mazi David Nwawuisi and Mazi Chidiebere Onwudiwe and Mazi Bright Chimezie, has been adjourned to 21st of May 2018 The Biafra activists are accused by the Nigerian government of importing equipment used by IPOB to air on radio-Biafra preparations for secession of Biafra from the Nigerian state; and today was scheduled for the hearing on their bail applications but the judge, Justice Binta Nyako adjourned the case because of a religious exercise - prayer - which she said she missed but had allowed her registra to attend. In her own words, "I have just released my registrar to go for prayers and you have just made me to miss my own prayers" IPOB Writers learnt that the judge, Justice Binta Nyako made the above excuse so that she could push for another long adjournment in the case for the bail application of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's co-defendants {IPOB's detainees} so as to punish the activists. But IPOB defense team maintained that "there is no evidence that if the IPOB's accused persons are given bail that they will fail to appear in court because the charges against them are nothing but frivolous charges which cannot stand the test of any country's law including that of Nigeria" Meanwhile, while praying the court to grant his clients bail, IPOB defense counsel prayed the court to restrain the Nigerian military from invading his clients' residences to avoid replicating Nnamdi Kanu's ordeal. "My lord I also pray that while granting my clients bail that you make an order restraining the Nigerian military from invading the house or going anywhere near my clients to avoid what happened in the case of NNAMDI KANU in order not to jeopardize this case further."