Ade Adesomoju, Abjua
The Federal High Court in Abuja has
summoned a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, to appear on November 14,
2018, to testify on the whereabouts of the missing leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
The request for the subpoena to summon the
former governor to appear in court was filed by Kanu’s lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi
Ejiofor.
A copy of the subpoena was
made available to journalists by Ejiofor on Friday.
The subpoena bore the Federal High Court’s
stamp and dated October 11, 2018, was signed by the “judge”.
The matter is before Justice Binta Nyako.
The ‘subpoena ad testificandum’, is titled,
Orji Uzor Kalu House, adjacent Bannex Flyover, beside the ever-busy
Wuse-Jahi-Gwarimpa, Abuja’.
It read, “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 18th 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.”
Ejiofor said in a statement that Kalu was
being summoned because of his recent “outburst” about Kanu’s whereabouts.
Kanu was being prosecuted on charges of
treasonable felony alongside some alleged IPOB members before he became missing
last year.
The IPOB leader became missing after
soldiers invaded his home in Afara-Ukwu, Abia State, during the ‘Operation
Python Dance’ staged by the military to quell the agitation for the realisation
of the Biafra Republic in the South-East in September 2017.
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