Kanu previously pleaded not guilty to seven charges including terrorism and calling for secession.

Prosecutors have filed additional charges against Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu as his trial on terrorism charges has resumed.

Kanu heads Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group he founded in 2014 that is pressing for the secession of the Igbo ethnic group’s homeland, which covers part of southeast Nigeria. The Nigerian authorities view IPOB as a terrorist group.

Kanu previously pleaded not guilty to seven charges including terrorism, calling for secession and knowingly broadcasting falsehoods about President Muhammadu Buhari.

On Tuesday Kanu faced eight additional charges, most linked to broadcasts he made between 2018 and 2021 on IPOB-run Radio Biafra that prosecutors said amounted to terrorism and incitement.

Nigerian authorities last year accused IPOB of attacks on police stations and government offices in the southeast. The group denies this and has called the accusations an attempt to force it to disband.

An attempt by the Igbo homeland to secede as the Republic of Biafra in 1967 – the year that Kanu was born – triggered a three-year civil war that killed more than 1 million people.

Lawyer Mike Ozekhome accused the state of ambushing Kanu and prosecutors of filing the additional charges “just to frustrate the trial” and keep Kanu in detention, according to a recording of proceedings made available to reporters.

Ozekhome said Kanu had not seen the new charges until Tuesday and needed time to prepare how to plead.

Media have been prevented from covering the trial, which the judge adjourned until Wednesday.

Al Jazeera’s Fidelis Mbah, reporting from Abuja, said that people in the southeast have divided opinions over Kanu’s group.

“[Kanu’s] supporters feel that the perceived injustices against the region … [have] not been corrected, and they feel the government has marginalised people in the region,” Mbah added.

Kanu was first arrested in 2015 but disappeared while on bail in April 2017. His social media posts during his absence and his Radio Biafra broadcasts outraged the government, which said they encouraged attacks on security forces.

Security agents produced him in court in Abuja on June 29 after detaining him in an undisclosed country. His lawyer alleged he was detained and mistreated in Kenya, though Kenya has denied involvement.

Kanu has filed charges alleging that he was illegally taken from Kenya and asking that he be repatriated to the United Kingdom.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/18/nigerian-separatist-kanu-faces-new-charges-as-trial-resumes?

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-adds-new-charges-biafran-separatist-leader-kanus-trial-resumes-

I think the whole world can now see that this people don't have any case against Nnamdi kanu they are just trying to use delaying tactics so that they can continue keeping him in their detention but I don't blame them I blame that useless country called Kenya for allowing themselves to be used by Nigeria government. you are filling another 8 count charges against someone less than 20hours to a court hearing.

Jostoman:
I don't blame them I blame that useless country called Kenya. Mu

They have caught the Useless Coward?

Pride comes before a fall.

adamsmith914:
They have caught the Useless Coward?

Pride comes before a fall.

PDP Lawyer Mike Ozekhome accused the state of ambushing Kanu and prosecutors of filing the additional charges “just to frustrate the trial” and keep Kanu in detention, according to a recording of proceedings made available to reporters.

Kanu in the cage.
Is he the cow or is he studying zoology

Emergingnation0:
Keep ranting, las las Biafra will come, and Nigeria will still continue for those who wish remain in her like Afonja's

Your eyes will become clear soon. Your brothers are tired of begging Israel already.

Cry me a river
Go to aljazeera and cancel the statement. You call him a terrorist but the world see him differently

adamsmith914:
They have caught the Useless Coward?

Pride comes before a fall.

You name proceeds you, "foolishboy"

FoolishBoy419:


Your eyes will become clear soon. Your brothers are tired of begging Israel already.

If not for NL how will any sane person have anything to discuss with "foolish boy" like you
Look at how low you are

FoolishBoy419:


Your eyes will become clear soon. Your brothers are tired of begging Israel already.

The world doesn't see MNK and IPOB as terrorists.
See how seasoned journalists report news. The news will not make front page

#freemnk

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Really they dont have case against kanu but he kanu hired 17 lawyers to defend his atrocities .

Jostoman:
I think the whole world can now see that this people don't have any case against Nnamdi kanu they are just trying to use delaying tactics so that they can continue keeping him in their detention but I don't blame them I blame that useless country called Kenya for allowing themselves to be used by Nigeria government. you are filling another 8 count charges against someone less than 20hours to a court hearing.

So all these terrorist tag no dey work

Even Aljazeera, an Arab News Cable refused to buy into the terrorist tag of FG and propagated by Tinubu urchins.

The whole world knows Nigeria is a joke.

Foreign news media are not the one to tell us who is a terrorist in Nigeria.

Have Reuters and AlJazeera seen the video of Nnamdi Kanu promising his followers to bring the head of Buhari?

Do they listen to radio Biafra to hear Nnamdi Kanu ordering IPOB members to attack Nigerian police and army?

Foreign media will not testify in favour of Nnamdi Kanu in the court, so stop masturbating over the news of the separatist tag.