The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the fresh application the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, filed to be released on bail, pending the determination of the treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him.

Rather, trial Justice Binta Nyako ordered an accelerated hearing of FG’s seven-count charge against him.

The ruling came on a day the embattled IPOB leader pleaded the court to transfer him from the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, to Kuje prison and, in the alternative, place him on house arrest.

Kanu equally gave reasons why violence has continued to fester in the South East region, saying he would have been able to tackle those using the name of IPOB to commit crimes, had it been he is not in detention.