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BREAKING Nnamdi Kanu pleads ‘not guilty’ to charges filed By Nigerian government

IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu may hire new lawyers over continued detention

Posted: January 19, 2022 at 5:42 am   /   by   /   comments (0)

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has pleaded “not guilty” to the 15-count amended charge on terrorism filed against him by the Nigerian government.

The trial is ongoing with Kanu’s defence team led by constitutional lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN. 

Kanu’s suit against the Nigerian government simultaneously goes on in Abia State where Justice Benson Anya will deliver a ruling today.  

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It had been earlier reported that the Nigerian prosecution team moved loads of what it called, documentary evidence, against Kanu. 

The courtroom of the Federal High Court in Abuja before Justice Binta Nyako where the prosecution is holding has been flooded with documentary evidence to be tendered by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government against Kanu. 

Also, electronic equipment comprising various cameras have been brought to court and are being inspected by the lead counsel to the Nigerian government, Shuaib Magaji Labaran.

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