Federal High Court grants Nnamdi Kanu 3 days to battle fresh bail, terrorism charges

The federal high court in Abuja has given the self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu 3 days to provide his case for fresh bail and to challenge the proficiency of the fresh terrorism charges brought against him by the federal government.

A 7-count terrorism charge was on Thursday, October 21, 2021, knocked on Kanu in which he pleaded not guilty and decided to challenge the validity of the alleged abhorrent criminal offenses.

A hearing notification provided by the federal high court for the determination of the 2 motions filed by Kanu and spotted by DAILY POST on Sunday indicated that 3 days have been allocated for the matter.

The hearing notification served on the federal government through the Federal Ministry of Justice and to Kanu through his legal representative, Ifeanyi Ejiofor repaired January 18, 19 and 20, 2022 consecutively for the disposal of the two motions.

Nnamdi Kanu is likewise anticipated to use the three days to challenge the court’s jurisdiction to attempt him on the terrorism charge on the premises that the supposed offences were dedicated in the United Kingdom and not in Nigeria.

His legal representative, Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor validated to DAILY POST that the hearing notice has actually been served on him which the legal team is completely gotten ready for the task before Justice Binta Nyako.

Kanu was in June 2021 re-arrested in Kenya and extradited to Nigeria to face trial and had since been restricted to the detention facility of the Department of the State Service DSS in Abuja on the order of the court.

He was very first arrested in a Lagos hotel in 2015 by operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) and was arraigned alongside 4 others in 2016.

To name a few, Kanu is challenging the charge on the grounds that it did not in any method link him with the offence and that the alleged offenses were even devoted in the United Kingdom.

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