By Our Correspondent
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kalu, who was arrested on Sunday and repatriated to Nigeria for resumed trial on Tuesday, told his trial judge, Justice Binta Murtala Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja, why he jumped bail earlier and fled abroad.
When the court demanded to know why he fled from justice, Kalu told the judge, Justice Binta Nyako, that he was compelled to escape out of the Country when his "life came under severe attacks and his house unlawfully invaded by soldiers" who killed some of his relatives.
Kalu who was not represented by a counsel in Court on Tuesday had raised up his hand when the prosecution lawyer Shuaibu Labaran informed the Court that he Kalu jumped bail and fled the Country.
In her ruling Justice Binta Nyako, in her ruling, ordered that the IPOB leader be remanded in Correctional Centre ,Kuje popularly known as Kuje prison. Justice Nyako's pronouncement on Kalu however followeda n application filed on Monday by the government lawyer, Shuaibu Labaran .
Kanu who looked highly subdued and apparently downcast during the court proceedings was directed by Justice Binta Nyako to be remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, until Monday, July 26, 2021, pending the continuation of his trial. His bail was however revoked since May 28, 2019.N
Recall that the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kalu, was “intercepted on Sunday , June 27 2021 by security operatives working in collaboration with intelligence” in an undisclosed country, and was hurriedly and secretly brought back to Nigeria to resume his trial in Court on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, by the Department of State Security (DSS). NNL.