Nigerian authorities had launched extra fees of ‘terrorism’ towards Kanu earlier this yr.
Nigeria’s separatist chief Nnamdi Kanu ought to stand trial and reply to fees that embody terrorism and broadcasting falsehoods, a federal choose has dominated.
A choose on Friday dominated that Kanu will stand trial on seven counts of “terrorism” out of 15, and struck eight of the fees that the federal government introduced towards the chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB)
Kanu, a British citizen who leads the banned IPOB, has denied all the costs, that are linked to broadcasts he made between 2018 and final yr.
The listening to was held in digital camera after a federal courtroom choose dominated on Thursday that each one trials of “terrorism circumstances” in Nigeria will henceforth be held with out public protection.
Kanu’s lead lawyer, Mike Ozekhome had filed a swimsuit on Thursday to cease him from being tried on fees of “terrorism” and “knowingly broadcasting falsehoods” as a result of he was not extradited from Kenya based mostly on these fees.
Kanu disappeared from Nigeria after skipping bail in 2017 and was re-arrested final yr in Kenya.
IPOB, which Kanu based in 2014, is urgent for the secession of part of southeast Nigeria the place nearly all of the inhabitants belongs to the Igbo ethnic group.
An try by Igbo separatists to secede because the Republic of Biafra in 1967 – the yr that Kanu was born – triggered a three-year civil warfare that killed multiple million individuals.
Since Kanu’s trials started in Abuja, IPOB has ordered residents of the southeast to “sit-at-home”, a type of civil disobedience to point out solidarity with Kanu.
The IPOB marketing campaign has crippled small companies and routinely disrupted different financial exercise within the 5 states of the area.
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