A Kaduna State High Court will on
Thursday hear the application of the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria
(IMN), Ibrahim El-Zazaky and wife, Zeenat, seeking to travel to India for
medical attention.
The IMN leader is standing trial
over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly and disruption of
public peace among other charges.
The State Director of Public
Prosecution, Mr Dari Bayero, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday
in Kaduna that the case would resume on Thursday.
Bayero said the IMN leader, who
is standing trial before the state High Court, brought the application seeking
the court’s permission to travel outside the country.
According to the official, the
IMN leader and his wife had applied to be granted permission to travel to
Metanta Hospital, New Delhi, India and return to Nigeria for continuation of
the trial as soon as they are discharged.
Bayero said that Justice D.H
Khobo would preside over the hearing on the application on July 18.
NAN recalls that Justice Gideon
Kurada, who was handling the case, on April 25 adjourned the trial of the IMN
leader indefinitely.
The indefinite adjournment was to
enable the judge serve on the panel of the Presidential and National Assembly
Elections Petitions Tribunal in Yobe.
Femi Falana (SAN), the lead
counsel to the defendants had told newsmen after the adjournment that his
clients, El-Zakzaky and wife Zeenat, were in dire need of medical attention,
the reason why they could not appear in court at the time.
Falana had said that his clients
had not been given adequate medical care since their detention on Dec. 14,
2015.
Before the indefinite
adjournment, the court had on Tuesday, Jan. 22, ordered the Kaduna State
Government to avail the IMN leader and his wife Zeenat, access to medical care.
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