The Federal Government has filed fresh charges including
treason against founder of Radio Biafra and leader of the Independent People of
Briafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High
Court Abuja.
The fresh case filed and signed by the Director, Public Prosecution, Mohammed Saidu Diri, for the Attorney-General of the Federation comes barely a week after Justice Adeniyi Ademola ordered the unconditional release of the accused since there was no pending charges against him about two months after his detention in October.
The DSS after the court ruling had kept him in their custody and decided to file fresh charges against him. The new case against him is meant to be heard by the court today December 22nd. Part of the charge against him reads
The fresh case filed and signed by the Director, Public Prosecution, Mohammed Saidu Diri, for the Attorney-General of the Federation comes barely a week after Justice Adeniyi Ademola ordered the unconditional release of the accused since there was no pending charges against him about two months after his detention in October.
The DSS after the court ruling had kept him in their custody and decided to file fresh charges against him. The new case against him is meant to be heard by the court today December 22nd. Part of the charge against him reads
“That you, Nnamdi Kanu and other unknown persons, now at
large, at London, United Kingdom, between 2014 and September, 2015, with
intention to levy war against Nigeria in order to force the President to change
his measures of being the President of the Federation, Head of State and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation as defined in Section
3 of the Constitution of the Federal Re- public of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by
doing an act to wit: Broadcast on Radio Biafra your preparations for the states
in the South- East geo-political zone, South-South geo-political zone, the
Igala Community of Kogi State and the Idoma/Igede Community of Benue State to
secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria and form themselves into a Republic
of Biafra, and thereby committed an offence punish- able under Section 41(C) of
the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.”
Source: Punch
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