Politics
Court summons Ex-Gov Kalu to explain whereabouts of missing IPOB leader Kanu
Former Abia State’s Governor Orji Uzo Kalu’s claim on the whereabouts of the missing leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has landed him in court.
A Federal High Court in Abuja has summoned the former governor to appear before it on November 14, 2018, to tell where the missing leader can be found.
Lawyer to the IPOB leader, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who filed the subpoena to have Kalu summoned, made a copy of it available to newsmen on Friday.
The matter is before Justice Binta Nyako.
The subpoena, which has the Federal High Court’ s seal and dated October 11, 2018, was signed by the “judge”.
The subpoena reads, “You are commanded in the name of the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to attend before this Court on the 14th day of November 2018, at 9 o’ clock in the forenoon, and so from day to day till the above use is tried, to give evidence on behalf of the Defendant, with regards to your knowledge on the whereabouts of the Defendant as contained in your interview granted to Press /Media on the 18 th of September, 2018, after your visit to the former Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in Minna, which interview was widely reported both on print and online media.”
The subpoena ad testificandum, is titled, “Orji Uzor Kalu House, adjacent Bannex Flyover, beside the ever- busy Wuse – Jahi – Gwarimpa, Abuja”.
According to Ejiofor, Kalu’s recent “outburst” about Kanu’s whereabouts was the reason for his summon.
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Kanu had remained missing after soldiers of the Nigeria Army evaded his home in Afara-Ukwu, Abia State, September last year.
The invasion of Kanu’s home was during ‘Operation Python Dance’, an exercise the military said was staged to quell agitation in the South – East in September 2017.
Kanu was still being prosecuted on charges of treasonable felony alongside some alleged IPOB members before the invasion and his disappearance.
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