FG files 15 fresh charges against IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu
The Nigerian government on Monday filed fifteen fresh terrorism charges against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The federal government had initially arraigned Kanu before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a seven-count charge of treasonable felony, among others.
At Monday’s resumed hearing of the case, the Director of Public Prosecution, M.B. Abubakar, announced the 15-count amended charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015.
Kanu is to be brought back to the court on Tuesday to face charges of alleged treason.
Periscope International reports that Kanu, a separatist and former fugitive was arrested and brought back to Nigeria on June 27 last year to continue his trial after fleeing the country while on bail.
The activist is leading a rebel group which is fighting the cause for the creation of an independent state called Biafra in Southeastern Nigeria.
Nigeria had fought a three-year bloody civil war between 1967 and 1970 to keep the country one when the late Col Emeka Ojukwu led a rebellion for the creation of an independent Biafra Republic out of the country.
