Nnamdi Kanu may die in jail as FG slams new terrorism charges against him

According to Top Naija, the Federal Government filed new terrorist accusations against Nnamdi Kanu, the beleaguered leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra.
The government raised the charges in the first charge it brought against Kanu in the revised procedure it filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Kanu, who has been in jail since his alleged kidnapping in Kenya and forced return to Nigeria, was facing seven treasonable felony counts, but will now enter a new plea to 15 revised charges stamped FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015 and signed by DPP M. B. Abubakar.

The charges were changed only 24 hours before trial Justice Binta Nyako was about to begin hearings.

Kanu began his activism for Biafra’s independence as the director of Radio Biafra and an anchor of Biafra awareness under Ralph Uwazuruike, the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who stated in a meeting in Kaduna, Nigeria on June 12, 2014, that he handed over Radio Biafra to Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB,

Kanu was apprehended by Interpol in Kenya or maybe another place on June 27, 2021, and extradited to Nigeria, where he is expected to stand trial. Kanu’s brother said that he was detained by Kenyan authorities. Kenyan High Commissioner Wilfred Machage denied this assertion, claiming that Kenyan officials were not engaged in the arrest and challenging anybody to provide proof to the contrary. When the BBC sought to contact Interpol’s Abuja office for details, the latter did not return the calls.