Nnamdi Kanu: Court Guarantes of FG Witch To Shield Witnesses

The High Federal Court sitting in Abuja gave the Federal Government the mention of protecting the identities of the billed witnesses to testify against the leader detained for the banned indigenous people of Biafra, iPob, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The judge of the trial James Omotosho gave approval in a sentence he delivered Tuesday.

The sentence followed an ex -application part that FG presented his team of public ministries led by the head adegboyega Awomolo, San.

In particular, the Court gave permission to the witnesses proposed to testify behind a screen with their real names replaced with acronyms.

FG’s lawyer, Awomolo, San, begged that the identities of the witnesses had to be protected for security reasons and in view of the serious nature of the case.

While the witnesses would have been protected by the public, they would still be seen by the judge.

The request was not contrasted by the team of lawyers of Kanu led by an former prosecutor General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice, the chief Kanu Agabi, San.

As a sequel to the sentence, FG opened his case against the leader of the Ipob in shit by presenting his first witness, which was simply identified as Pwaaa.

Kanu, whose trial began in De-Novo (again) following the reassignment of his case to the judge Omotosho, had previously declared himself not guilty of an accusation of crime of seven counts that the government preferred against him.

It will be remembered that judge Binta Nyako, who had previously conducted the trial, retired from the matter after being accused of prejudice by the accused.

Kanu was arrested for the first time in Lagos on October 14, 2015, on his return to the country by the United Kingdom, in the United Kingdom.

On April 25, 2017, the Court granted him the deposit for healthcare ground after spending about 18 months in detention.

To the perfection of the conditions of deposit, it was issued by prison on April 28, 2017.

However, in the middle of the trial, the leader of the iPob fled the country after the soldiers invaded his house in the countryside in Afara Ukwu Ibeku in Umuaia, in the state of Abia, an operation that led to the death of some of his followers.

Kanu was subsequently revoked in Kenya on June 19, 2021 and extraordinarily returned to the country by the safety agents on June 27, 2021.

Development sequel, the trial court, on June 29, 2021, postponed him to DSS custody, where he has remained to date.

On April 8, 2022, the Court eliminated eight of the accusation of 15 counts that FG preferred against him on the premise that were missing from substance.

In the same way, the division of Abuja of the Court of Appeal, on October 13, 2022, ordered the immediate liberation of Kanu from detention even if he canceled the accusation against him.

Dissatisfied with the decision, FG took the question before the Supreme Court, even if he convinced the Court of Appeal to suspend the execution of the sentence, pending the determination of his appeal.

While the appeal decided, the Supreme Court, on December 15, 2023, left the sentence of the Court of Appeal and gave FG the nod of the head to try the leader of the Ipob on the subsistence accusation of seven counts.