Six of the 11 charges filed by the Federal Government against the
incarcerated leader of the leader of the Independent People of the Biafra
(IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu were on Wednesday, March 1 dismissed by Justice Binta Nyako
of the federal high court, Abuja.
The charges dismissed
bordered on “ownership of unlawful society, illegal importation of radio
transmitters and researching on how to make improvised explosive devices”.
A magistrate court in
Abuja had thrown out similar charges in 2015.
Nyako said she took the decision to quash the six charges because
the prosecutor did not present any evidence.
However, she held that Kanu would be re-arraigned on a five count of treasonable felony.
However, she held that Kanu would be re-arraigned on a five count of treasonable felony.
On January 12, Ifeanyi
Ejiofor, Kanu’s lawyer, had prayed the court to quash the charges against his
client because he had not committed any offence by agitating for Biafra.
On Tuesday, Chukwuma
Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); Patrick Utomi, a
professor of economics, and some Igbo leaders called for the immediate release
of Kanu.
They described his trial
as persecution, and they asked the government to release him for the sake of
engineering a new Nigeria.
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