Court Orders Abaribe To Pay N100 Million Over Nnamdi Kalu’s Escape

A federal high court in Abuja has ordered Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe to forfeit the N100 million bail bond used by the lawmaker to stand as surety for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in 2017.

Justice Binta Nyako in her ruling on Wednesday asked Abaribe who represents Abia South Senatorial District at the National Assembly and two other persons, who stood sureties for the IPOB leader, to within two months, pay the sum of N100 million each into the court’s account for their inability to produce the missing Biafran activist in court.

Abaribe, Immanuel Shalom, a Jewish priest, and Tochukwu Uchendu, an accountant, all stood as sureties of the IPOB leader, when Justice Nyako had granted Kanu bail in April 2017.

But he flouted all the bail condition and fled the country when soldiers raided his country home in Umuahia, Abia state in September 2017.

Recall that Abaribe had applied to be discharged as a surety but the court refused his application.