Yusuf Bello|
A Kaduna State High Court on Monday set aside August 5, 2019, to rule on the bail application filed by the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat.
At the resumed earing of the application filed by counsel to the El-Zakzakys, Femi Falana, on behalf of his clients on July 18, seeking permission to travel abroad for further medical treatment, the senior advocate of Nigeria said his clients were not in court due to their bad health condition.
He told the court that the health condition of his clients was getting worse by the day and that a foreign medical treatment was required to stabilise them to enable them face the main trial.
Falana’s bail application for the duo was, however, opposed by the prosecuting counsel Debris Bayero.
According to him, El-Zakzaky’s medical condition can be treated locally, as there was no urgent need for the court to release him on bail to travel abroad.
The presiding judge, Justice Darius Khobo after listening to the submissions from both counsels, adjourned the ruling on the application to August 5.
El-Zakzaky and his wife are being prosecuted by the Kaduna state government for culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, disturbance of public peace.
The bail hearing came barely three days after the Shi’ite group was proscribed by an order of a Federal High Court in Abuja.
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