Nnamdi Kanu's Trial: Lawyer Tells Buhari What Next To Do

Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government on the step to take toward his client.

Ejimakor while quoting a section of the Federal High Court Act said the Buhari-led Federal Government should dialogue and abandon the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu.

In a tweet, Ejimakor wrote: “Section 17 of Federal High Court Act (Reconciliation in civil & CRIMINAL cases) says: “In any proceedings in the Court, the Court may promote RECONCILIATION among the parties thereto & encourage & facilitate the AMICABLE settlement thereof." Dialogue is amicable. The trial is not. #MNK.”

Amended Charges

The Nigerian government served the amended 15 counts on Kanu’s legal team on Monday.

The charges centre on Kanu’s separatist activities.

In the court document signed by the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation, Mohammed Abubakar, the IPOB leader was accused of making “a broadcast received and heard in Nigeria and furtherance of an act of terrorism against the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the people of Nigeria.”

The said broadcast, according to the prosecution, was intended to “destabilise the fundamental political and economic structures of Nigeria.

“You invite the members of the public to stop the Anambra State Elections, and you thereby committed an offence punishable under section 1 (2) (h) of the Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act 2013,” Count nine of the charge read.

In count 10, the charge said, “between 2018 and 2021, that you Nnamdi Kanu of Afara-Ukwu Ibeku, Umahia North Local Government Area of Abia State on diverse dates, made a broadcast received and heard in Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this court, in furtherance of an act of terrorism against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you invite members of the public to destroy public facilities and you thereby committed an offence punishable” under the Terrorism Prevention Act.

Similarly, in count five, the IPOB leader was accused of inciting “members of the public in Nigeria to hunt and kill families of Nigerian security personnel and that you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 1 (2) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.”

The charges, which were initially 15 counts, had eight struck out by Justice Nyako.

The judge struck out counts six, seven, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.