Buhari's Utterances Is Prejudicial To My Trial - Nnamdi Kanu

      Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High
Court in Abuja has slated June 21 to commence
hearing on N8.5 billion suit the Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB, filed against the Federal
Government of Nigeria.
IPOB is seeking damages and compensation for
deceased and injured members it claimed were
“wickedly and brutally killed by combined forces
of the Nigerian Army, the Department of State
Services, DSS, and the Nigerian Police.”
The plaintiff, through its lawyer Mr. Okere

Kingdom, told the court that about 153 of its
members were killed during a peaceful protest in
Onitsha, Aba and other parts of the South-East
and South-South of Nigeria late last year and
early this year.

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It said that over 50 of them sustained various
degrees of injuries during a peaceful protest for
the release of its detained leader, Mr. Nnamdi
Kanu.
Meanwhile, the detained IPOB leader, Kanu, has
accused President Muha-mmadu Buhari of
making comments prejudicial to his trial and the
bail request he filed before the Abuja Division of
the Court of Appeal.

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Kanu, who spoke through his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi
Ejiofor, bemoaned a comment he said was
credited to President Buhari during his recent
visit to the Emir of Katsina.
Ejiofor, at a media briefing in Abuja, alleged that
the comment President Buhari made during a
presidential media chat was the reason trial
Justice John Tsoho denied his client and two
other pro-Biafra agitators bail.
He said: “The moment the President pronounced
to the world that Kanu cannot be granted bail by
any court, he made my client a political prisoner,
and the media chat inadvertently prejudiced the
judge's mind.”