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News had filtered out on Saturday morning that Okah had scaled the Kuje Prison fence alongside some other prisoners and escaped.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole, while ruling in the application, held that the defendant failed to prove the involuntariness of the statement he made in the DSS custody

Nwabueze, the second defendant in the case, had alleged that the statement he made in the custody of the Department of State Services was obtained under duress

He, however, ordered that Obi Nwabueze, standing trial alongside Okah, be remanded in Kuje prison and produced at the next adjourned date

Okah, a brother to Henry Okah, the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation Niger Delta, is standing trial alongside one Nwabueze Obi, on charges bordering on conspiracy and terrorism

Okah had on Tuesday attempted to kill himself during his appearance in court in Abuja on allegations over the 2010 bomb blasts