The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on all the offences contained in the seven-count terrorism charge.
The presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, in his ongoing judgment in Kanu’s trial, found Kanu guilty on all the counts in the charge being prosecuted by the Department of State Services (DSS).
Justice Omotosho held that the prosecution led sufficient credible evidence to establish its case against Kanu.
According to the judge, the court has no option but to believe the evidence as led by the prosecution since the defendant failed to enter his defence, but chose to gamble by resting his case on that of the prosecution.
Justice Omotosho is still reading the remaining part of the judgment.
The embattled leader of IPOB has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since June 2021, after he fled Nigeria but was arrested in Kenya under controversial circumstances, his lawyers describe as “extraordinary rendition”.