The Federal Government has filed seven amended charges of terrorism against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
This is coming despite the October 13 judgement of the Court of Appeal discharging Kanu. But the appellate court has since ordered a stay of execution of its own order.
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed Monday for Kanu’s team of lawyers and the Federal Government prosecution team to address the court based on the ongoing case between him and the government.
The amended charges marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015 contained all earlier sustained allegations against the IPOB leader.
In the amended charges, the government alleged that Kanu issued a deadly threat via a broadcast, heard and received across the country that anyone who disobeyed his sit-at-home order in the south-eastern states should write his or her will.
It also contended that the resulting effect of the broadcast had caused banks, schools, markets, shopping malls, fuel stations in the eastern states part of the country to shut down their business operations affecting citizens and leading to grounding of vehicular movements.
The Federal Government further alleged that the IPOB leader had between 2018 and 2021, made inciting broadcasts, received and heard in Nigeria, instigating the public to hunt and kill Nigerian security personnel and their family members, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 1 (2) (h) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.
Furthermore, the government alleged that Kanu had, between the March and April 2015, imported into Nigeria and kept in Ubulisiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, a radio transmitter known as Tram 50L, concealed in a container of used household items, thereby, committing an offence contrary to section 47 (2) (a) of Criminal Code Act Cap, C45 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, adding that he also directed members of IPOB “to manufacture bombs.
