The Federal High Court on Tuesday rejected the request to order the release of the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Eyinnaya Abaribe, who was arrested by the Department of State Service on Friday and has since been held in custody.
Justice Binta Nyako turned down the request after declaring that Abaribe’s arrest and detention had nothing to do with his suretyship for the missing leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
Justice Nyako had, in April last year, granted bail to Kanu, with Abaribe and two others standing surety for him.
Kanu, alongside others, was being prosecuted before Justice Nyako on charges bordering on treasonable felony, before he became missing after soldiers in an operation to quell pro-Biafra protests in the South-East, invaded his home in Abia State in September 2017.
Since October 17, 2017 when the trial was supposed to resume, Abaribe and the two other sureties had been grappling with the burden to produce Kanu in court.
The court, on March 28, 2018, ordered the senator and the two others to appear in court to show cause why they should not forfeit their bail bonds worth N100m each, or be imprisoned for their inability to produce the IPOB leader in court.
The DSS arrested Abaribe on Friday without giving any reason for the arrest.
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