BREAKING: Security Operatives Take Over Abuja Court Ahead Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial (Photos)

• Security operatives have taken over Abuja Court over Nnamdi Kanu’s trial.

 

 

EKOHOTBLOG reports that several police officers and heavily armed soldiers, on Thursday, took over the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja ahead of the trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

The operatives of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) reports were also seen in the premises guarding every entrance to the Federal High Court and the streets leading to the court building.

 

This online news platform reports that the staff of the court and journalists were made to stand in a queue and search before gaining entrance into the premises.

 

EKOHOTBLOG reports that Nnamdi Kanu is being tried before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court over charges of treasonable felony and terrorism.

It would be recalled that the IPOB leader, who was granted bail in April 2017, fled Nigeria after the invasion of his home in Afara-Ukwu, near Umuahia, Abia State, by the military in September, a situation one of Kanu’s lawyers, Alloy Ejimakor described as the “rule of self-preservation.”

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This online news platform further recalls that on June 29, 2021, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, announced that Nnamdi Kanu had been rearrested and extradited to Nigeria to continue facing his trial.

 

Malami added that the IPOB leader was “intercepted” days earlier but did not disclose which country and how the operation was carried out.

Although there has been no official disclosure about where and how Kanu was arrested, relatives and lawyers of Nnamdi Kanu have described how he was taken into custody in Kenya under controversial circumstances.

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