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| Nnamdi Kanu sandwiched between security operatives leaving the court yesterday. |
It would be recalled that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, had on March 2nd struck-out the 11 count criminal charges against the leader if the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Mr Nnamdi Kanu and three other Biafra agitators, David Nwawuisi, Chidiebere Onwudiwe and Benjamin Madubugwu on account of treasonable felony.
In the ruling delivered by Binta Nyako, she said IPOB is not an illegal organisation, even though it wasn't a registered organisation in Nigeria.
“It may be true that IPOB is not registered in Nigeria, but does that make it an illegal organisation?”, the judge queried.
Justice Binta, reiterated that the Federal Government failed to prove that IPOB is an unlawful organisation.
Nnamdi Kanu on February last year opposed the application of the Federal Government to conduct his trial in secret.
FG complained that the all the witnesses billed to testify against Nnamdi Kanu and the two other agitators have declined to appear in court, they insisted they would not testify for the sake of their safety.
Lawyers in the defense of Kanu are Inalegwu Adoga, E.I Esene and Chukwuma Ozougwu. They argued that having been acquitted of the charges of terrorism and importation of weapons, the defendants(FG) cannot be tried with the identities of witnesses based on section 36(6) of the 1999 Constitution.
April 25 has been fixed by the court to deliver ruling in the application for variation of the order of court on protection of witnesses in the case against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
However, counsel to the Federal Government, Suleiman Labaran in a counter affidavit urged the court to dismiss the application as a ploy to delay the trial.
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