ABUJA – The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed October 17 to begin full-blown hearing into the treasonable felony charge the Federal Government entered against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

FG is prosecuting Kanu alongside three other pro-Biafra agitators- Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi.

Their trial which was originally billed to commence this week, was shifted till October considering that the high court has embarked on its annual vacation. The prosecution had in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, alleged that Kanu, being the leader of IPOB, conspired with his co-defendants and others now at large, on diverse dates in 2014 and 2915, in Nigeria and London, to broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas, preparations for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue states, to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with a view to constituting same into a Republic of Biafra.

Though trial Justice Binta Nyako had in a ruling on April 25 released Kanu on bail after he had spent a year and seven months in detention, the court however okayed his co-defendants to remain in prison custody. Justice Nyako said her decision to release Kanu who is the 1st defendant, on bail, was on health ground.

The court also rejected FG’s claim that the defendants were members of an illegal organisation. Justice Nyako said the fact that IPOB was not an organisation registered in Nigeria did not make it an illegal society.

Kanu who was hitherto the Director of Radio Biafra and Television, had through his lawyers, insisted that IPOB was duly registered in over 30 countries including the United Kingdom. He had on December 12, 2016, threatened in the open court that he would in the course of the trial, expose secrets he said would sink Nigeria.

The defendants who are answering to a five-count charge equally alleged plot by FG to import foreigners to testify against them. Kanu is facing four out of the five count charges.

The trial judge had earlier granted FG the nod to shield identities of all the witnesses billed to testify in the matter. The court directed that the witnesses who are mostly security operatives would testify behind a screen or wear mask when the need arises, a decision the defendants protested against, insisting that it was wrong for the court to allow “masquerades” to give evidence against them.

While dismissing some of the previous charges against the defendants, Justice Nyako held that FG could not establish any ingredient of crime in its allegation that Kanu had between March and April 2015, imported into Nigeria a radio Transmitter known as TRAM 50L and kept it in a container that was left in custody of the 3rd defendant, Madubugwu, at Ubuluisiuzor in Ihiala LGA of Anambra State.

The court however held that Kanu has a case to answer pertaining to allegation in count-four that he lied that the Radio Transmitter was concealed in a container of used household items which the defendant declared as unused household items. Whereas the court struck out counts 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11 of the charges, it however sustained counts 1, 2, 4, 5 and 8.

The sustained charges, to which all the defendants entered a plea of not guilty to, borders on conspiracy, treasonable felony, publication of defamatory matter and Kanu’s alleged importation of goods contrary and punishable under section 47(2) (a) of the Customs and Excise Management Act, Cap C45, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

In count three of the pending charges, FG alleged that Kanu had in a broadcast he made in London on April 28, 2015, through Radio Biafra, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as “a paedophile, a terrorist, an idiot and an embodiment of evil”. Madubugwu was specifically accused of having in his possession at his house, one Emerald Magnum Pump Action Gun with serial number TS 870- 113- 0046, one Delta Magnum Pump Action Gun with serial number 501, and 41 Cartridges/ Ammunition, without lawful authority or licence.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/biafra-court-shifts-resumption-kanu-others-trial-oct-17/

I'm only feeling for those three rejected Agitators who have been used and dumped by the fraudster.

Aufbauh:
I'm only feeling for those three rejected Agitators who have been used and dumped by the fraudster.

one thing is sure. Kanu will go back to prison , only this time around. He's not getting out.

okay na

continue, i see you

Aufbauh:

clamoring for divided Nigeria is like asking father to divide his properties, remember what happen to the Prodigal son in the bible. He came back begging to serve as a servant in his fathers yard. Cases of sysria, iraq, somalia and most especially SUDAN (south) should serve as a lesson. ONE NIGERIA.

am here observing

Yeye government without case

make i park my tent here. Biafra thread dey sweet die

ZeeWorld

Aufbauh:
I'm only feeling for those three rejected Agitators who have been used and dumped by the fraudster.

i tell you. And the f**l is busy snappng pictures daily without remembering his friends.

fistonati:
clamoring for divided Nigeria is like asking father to divide his properties, remember what happen to the Prodigal son in the bible. He came back begging to serve as a servant in his fathers yard. Cases of sysria, iraq, somalia and most especially SUDAN (south) should serve as a lesson. ONE NIGERIA.

One Nigeria brother...

Most Igbos actually thought he was freed.

mtchew

Guestlander:
Most Igbos actually thought he was freed.

Freed? he has breached some of the conditions given to him. I pray he dont land back in Kuje

Im surprised that defamatory matter is a criminal offence in Nigeria. In most countries, it is a civil matter

Ok

Afons gallantly wankin off on ..

BIAFRAN ship has set sail.. no 360.. No jonzin.

plus Kanu..Minus Kanu..

is Biafra or death. kanu 2017.

make dem go jail every Igbo supporting IPOb..

then we go know say em serious.. if not..
the zoo is best known for jonzing!

e go happen soon..AFons go open mouth like

.......ahhhhhhaaaaaaa...

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Aufbauh:
I'm only feeling for those three rejected Agitators who have been used and dumped by the fraudster.

YourImaginaryBF:

one thing is sure. Kanu will go back to prison , only this time around. He's not getting out.

fistonati:
clamoring for divided Nigeria is like asking father to divide his properties, remember what happen to the Prodigal son in the bible. He came back begging to serve as a servant in his fathers yard. Cases of sysria, iraq, somalia and most especially SUDAN (south) should serve as a lesson. ONE NIGERIA.

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See them. The professional unity beggars association of Nigeria.

-Shameless Zoo Country. If Nigeria spends as much time as it spends trying to stop Biafra, it would have built a decent hospital for its President and Politicians.
-Nigerians disgracing blacks since 1914.

Interesting.

Why the shift? What are they still investigating biko?

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