The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on all the offences contained in the seven-count terrorism charge.
The presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, in his ongoing judgment in Kanu’s trial, found Kanu guilty on all the counts in the charge being prosecuted by the Department of State Services (DSS).
Justice Omotosho held that the prosecution presented sufficient credible evidence to establish its case against Kanu.
According to the judge, the court had no option but to accept the prosecution’s evidence since the defendant failed to enter a defence and instead chose to rely on the prosecution’s case.
Justice Omotosho is still reading the remaining part of the judgment.
The embattled IPOB leader has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since June 2021, after fleeing Nigeria and later being arrested in Kenya under controversial circumstances described by his lawyers as “extraordinary rendition.”
