The trial of pro-Biafran independence leader Nnamdi Kanu, which was due to resume on Monday in Abuja before the Federal High Court of Nigeria, has been adjourned to 21 October.
Kanu’s lawyer Aloy Ejimkaor told Newsmen that the trial has been adjourned to October 21″ because the authorities failed to present Nnamdi Kanu before the court.
The lawyer added that the judge said that the trial could not start without the accused being present.
The IPOB Leader who has been advocating for the secession of southeastern Nigeria, was arrested abroad after four years on the run and brought back to Nigeria at the end of June.
Nigerian Justice Minister Abubakar Malami said in a statement that Kanu is being charged with “terrorism, treason, running an illegal company, publishing defamatory material and illegal possession of firearms
Nnamdi Kanu was first arrested in October 2015, but he took advantage of his bail to leave Nigeria in 2017.
Many journalists were denied access to the courtroom. The human rights organization, Amnesty International, had called on “the Nigerian authorities” to allow “the media free access to the court to do their work”.
Former Biafra, a deprived region in the southeast mainly populated by the Igbo community, was the scene of a bloody civil war between 1967 and 1970.
The arrest of Nnamdi Kanu comes after months of unrest in the region and the creation of a regional paramilitary movement.
Kanu’s lawyer Aloy Ejimkaor told Newsmen that the trial has been adjourned to October 21″ because the authorities failed to present Nnamdi Kanu before the court.
The lawyer added that the judge said that the trial could not start without the accused being present.
The IPOB Leader who has been advocating for the secession of southeastern Nigeria, was arrested abroad after four years on the run and brought back to Nigeria at the end of June.
Nigerian Justice Minister Abubakar Malami said in a statement that Kanu is being charged with “terrorism, treason, running an illegal company, publishing defamatory material and illegal possession of firearms
Nnamdi Kanu was first arrested in October 2015, but he took advantage of his bail to leave Nigeria in 2017.
Many journalists were denied access to the courtroom. The human rights organization, Amnesty International, had called on “the Nigerian authorities” to allow “the media free access to the court to do their work”.
Former Biafra, a deprived region in the southeast mainly populated by the Igbo community, was the scene of a bloody civil war between 1967 and 1970.
The arrest of Nnamdi Kanu comes after months of unrest in the region and the creation of a regional paramilitary movement.
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