Nnamdi Kanu asks court to dismiss charges against him

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, asked Abuja Federal High Court to dismiss charges levelled against him by the Federal Government.

His counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), argued that the charges should be dismissed on the ground that the alleged offences were not committed in Nigeria.

Ozekhome also claimed that no prima facie has been made against his client by the Federal Government throughout the proof of evidence in support of the charges.

This was even as the IPOB leader also complained about his poor sight, and asked the presiding judge, Justice Binta Nyako, to rescue him from going blind by ordering the Department of State Services (DSS), in whose custody he has remained, to allow his family send him a reading glass.

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Ozekhome said that since his client was re-arrested, he had not been allowed to take reading glasses provided by his family.

According to him, Kanu’s reading glasses he travelled with to Kenya, where he was arrested, got damaged when he was being picked up.

He added that the glasses Kanu brought to Nigeria in 2015 when he was first arrested were seized by the DSS and have not been released to him.

He equally complained that his client had not been allowed to take clothes from his family, hence, he has been wearing the same cloth since his re-arrest in June last year.

The matter was still ongoing when this report was filed.

The Nigerian government is prosecuting Kanu on a 15-count charge bordering on terrorism, treason, secession and leading an illegal group.