A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday granted bail to leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on health grounds.
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti and scores of IPOB members were in court as Justice Binta Nyako granted bail in the sum of N100million with three sureties in like sum.
The sureties must be a senior person such as a serving senator, a Judaism religious leader and a highly respected person who must own a landed property in the Federal Capital Territory.
Also, Justice Nyako barred Kanu from granting press interviews, holding rallies or being in a gathering of more than 10 persons while on bail.
“No interviews and no rallies,” the judge ruled.
She ordered that the bail would be revoked if Kanu flouts any of the conditions.
The judge, however, denied bail to the other three persons arraigned with Kanu, saying that the treason charges against them are a serious offence.
Kanu and three others, David Nwawuisi, Benjamin Madubugwu and Chidiebere Onwudiwe, are charged with treasonable felony for leading the IPOB movement to ask for an independent Biafra out of Nigeria.
The judge also refused the application by the defendants to set aside her previous order on witness protection, ruling that witnesses who have been identified as security operatives cannot be exposed in the course of the trial.
Out of the 11-count charges filed against the defendants, six were struck out for being incompetent.
The court has fixed July 11 and 12 for commencement of trial.
Kanu was arrested in Lagos on October 18, 2015 by the Department of State Services (DSS) and has been in detention since then.
