By Vivian Okejeme
Abuja
Senator representing Abia South senatorial district, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, with an application, praying for an order compelling the Chief of Army Staff to pay him all expenses he incurred in the cause of the trial of the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The Senator, who is one of the sureties of the embattled IPOB leader, is also demanding for an order for payment of damages of N10million to him for the psychological trauma he has gone through following the extra-judicial self-help actions of the Army Chief of Staff.
The senator, had in the motion on notice he filed, is also praying for “An order of the court compelling the Chief of Army Staff, on failure to produce 1st defendant/2nd respondent, to pay to the court the sum in the bail bond earlier executed by the applicant on behalf of 1st
defendant/2nd respondent.
“An order of the court compelling the Chief of Army Staff to produce 1st defendant/2nd respondent before the court and or to explain to the satisfaction of the court the circumstance surrounding his whereabouts.”
The senator premised his application on the grounds that “Out of patriotic consideration of assisting the judicial process to defuse the overheating already generated in the polity and with full belief that 1st defendant was carrying on his activities within the limits and confines of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, applicant offered to stand surety for him and entered into recognisance and executed the bail bond on his behalf.
