Nnamdi Kanu Arrested By The Federal Government Of Nigeria For Terrorism
Nnamdi Kanu Arrested By The Federal Government Of Nigeria For Terrorism
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Nandi Kanu has been arrested .
Kanu has been extradited to Nigeria to face trial.
The details at the time of writing was not resolute, with no information of when and where he was arrested.
Emma Powerful, the IPOB spokesman, denied the news of the arrest while Frank Mba, police spokesman, is yet to respond to TheCable’s enquiry on whether the police was involved in the development.
Kanu Arrested By The Federal Government Of Nigeria For Terrorism
Kanu is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony instituted against him at the federal high court in Abuja in response to years of the campaign for the independent Republic of Biafra through IPOB.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami(SAN), who made the disclosure to journalists on Tuesday, revealed that Kanu was arrested and brought back to Nigeria on Sunday
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He said the arrest followed a collaborative effort between security agencies in Nigeria and Interpol.
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Meanwhile, Kanu has been taken before the Federal High Court in Abuja for the continuation of his trial on charges bordering on terrorism, treasonable felony, unlawful possession of firearms and management of an unlawful society.
IPOB Leader Arrested By The FG
He has also been on the run since then after soldiers raided his father’s residence in Abia state.
IPOB was later declared a terrorist group by the defence headquarters and court after the south-east governors proscribed it.
Despite the court’s insistence on his appearance, the IPOB leader has remained abroad, and once said he jumped bail to pursue the cause of Biafra.
“Their problem is Nnamdi Kanu and the solution to their problem is referendum. They gave me conditional bail to cage me and IPOB but I refused,” he had said during a broadcast.
Owing to his absence in court, Binta Nyako, the judge who granted him bail, revoked it and ordered that he should be arrested.
Kanu, however, dismissed the arrest warrant issued against him and vowed to remain abroad to continue agitating for Biafra.
“The bench warrant against me is merely academic. It will surely be ignored by an international legal and diplomatic order that has voiced its disapproval of what is happening to IPOB in Nigeria,” he had said in one of his broadcasts.
In Kanu’s absence, IPOB went underground and mobilised resources to launch a militant named the Eastern Security Network (ESN)
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