The respite granted Nnamdi Kanu by a Federal High Court might be short lived, as the Federal Government (FG) has come up with fresh charges of treasonable felony against the Radio Biafra director. Nnamdi Kanu might not be a free man yet, as the Nigerian government has come up with fresh charges of felony. It will be recalled that Kanu who has been in custody of the DSS, was last week freed by an Abuja High Court. However, the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), was not released as the Judge’s sentence stated. Emerging reports have it that the FG had gone to a Federal High Court in Abuja to prefer six charges against Kanu, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi.
According to Daily Sun, the charge-sheet signed by the director, public prosecution, Mohammed Saidu Diri, for the Attorney-General of the Federation, states that Kanu and the two others were charged with treasonable felony which is punishable under Section 41(C) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.
The charge-sheet partly reads: “That you, Nnamdi Kanu and other unknown persons, now at large, at London, United Kingdom, between 2014 and September, 2015 with intention to levy war against Nigeria in order to force the President to change his measures of being the President of the federation, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation as defined in Section 3 of the Constitution of the Federal Re- public of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by doing an act to wit: Broadcast on Radio Biafra your preparations for the states in the southeast geo-political zone, southsouth geo-political zone, the Igala community of Kogi state and the Idoma/Igede community of Benue state to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria and form themselves into a Republic of Biafra, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 41(C) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.”
On count two of the charges, the federal authorities also accused the trio of managing an unlawful society. In reaction to the fresh claims by the FG, Counsel to the embattled Biafra leader, Vincent Egechukwu Obetta, has accused the federal government of instituting unnecessary legal bottlenecks to frustrate the release of Kanu. Obetta told pressmen in an interview yesterday, December 21, that the federalauthorities are giving flimsy reasons in a desperate bid to frustrate his client’s release.