According to Justice Yetunde Adesanya, the court is constrained to refuse Nwajagu’s bail application based on the seriousness of the alleged offence and the severity of its punishment.
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He was docked on a nine-count charge of attempting to commit terrorism, financing terrorism, participating in terrorism and meeting to support the proscribed Independent Peoples of Biafra.
The Eze Ndigbo is standing trial before a Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square.
Chief Magistrate Peter Nwaka ordered that the defendant, 67, should be kept at the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for 30 days.
It said, “The statement by the Igbo leader was made because of the silence of the security agencies towards the attack on the Igbos in Lagos. The DSS and the police left the real cause of the problem to chase shadows.
The Yoruba Council Worldwide said it was aghast over the “demeaning treasonable and felonious statement made by the arrested Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate calling on the dreaded terrorist IPOB’s spiral attacks on the good people of Yoruba land, specifically our peace loving Lagosians.”
Chief Chukwudi Ihenetu, the Eze Nd’Igbo of Ghana, made the promise in a statement in Abuja on Saturday.
Eneh saluted the courage and steadfastness of the Alaafin Oyo, Obi Lamidi Adeyemi, to have overlooked money and political antecedents as strong factors in determining the Generalissimo of Yorubaland.