Ade AdesomojuSenator representing Abia South, Eyinnaya Abaribe, has accused the Chief of Army, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, of frustrating his role as a surety for the bail granted the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, by a Federal High Court in Abuja. Abaribe stated this in a fresh motion he filed before the court where he and Kanu’s two other sureties had been ordered to explain the IPOB leader’s whereabouts. But Abaribe was physically present in court on Monday. He noted that the conducts of the COAS on the deployment of the soldiers were with “most probable effect” of preventing him (Kanu) from attending court to continue his trial. He said he opted to be Kanu’s surety out of “patriotic consideration of assisting the judicial process to defuse the tension already generated in the polity”.

Source: Punch November 20, 2017 15:17 UTC