Reports from eye-witnesses say embattled Director of Radio Biafra and Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, was finally arraigned on Monday, in an Abuja Magistrate Court.
The arraignment followed an order last Wednesday by the court that the Department of State Services (DSS) must produce the detained Kanu in court Monday.
DSS was expected to produce him in court last week, but it failed to do so.
Citizen Edith Otubo, who took to Facebook, said: “Though he now looks thin and somehow unkempt because he hasn’t had a hair cut.
“But I can assure you that everything including everyone is on high tempo but calm, considering the fact that after much rumours and speculations that our director is dead.
“The mantle carrier finally appears in a sky blue packet shirt full of smiles. Innocent Uchenna reporting live from the city of Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court, Abuja. Now the court is in session.”
DSS seeks terror charge against Kanu
The Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday requested a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court in Abuja to discontinue trial of Nnamdi Kanu, Director of Radio Biafra, charged with criminal conspiracy.
Kanu is standing trial on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, intimidation and belonging to unlawful society, to which he pleaded not guilty.
At the resumed sitting of the case, prosecution counsel Moses Idakwo, informed the court that after the arraignment of the accused, the complainant stumbled on some facts which took the matter out of the jurisdiction of the court.
According to him, the complainant found out that the accused was involved in terrorism and has been financing it.
“The complainant is, therefore, applying to discontinue the matter under Section 108(1) of Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015.’’
Idakwo said that the DSS had also obtained an order from the Federal High Court, Abuja, dated November 10, to detain the accused in its custody for 90 days.
Objecting, Kanu’s counsel Vincent Obetta, prayed the court not to discontinue the case because the prosecution did not present any information from the Attorney-General of Federation who had the authority to approve such.
Obetta told the court that DSS violated the order of the court which granted bail that was perfected but not granted, adding that the accused had been in DSS custody since he was arrested.
Subsequently, the magistrate Usman Shuaibu, after listening to both counsels, adjourned the matter until December 1 for ruling.
-Vanguard