Detained leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday, said he
was ready to negotiate with the Federal Government to regain his freedom
from Kuje Prison. Kanu who was hitherto the Director of Radio Biafra
and Television, has been in detention since October 14, 2015, when he
was arrested by security operatives upon his arrival to Nigeria from his
base in the United Kingdom.
ARRAIGNED: Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, with a Prisons official, at the premises of a Federal High
Court in Abuja, yesterday.
ARRAIGNED: Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, with a Prisons official, at the premises of a Federal High
Court in Abuja.
He is answering to a six-count treason charge alongside two other
pro-Biafra agitators, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu.
Trial Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja had on
January 20, ordered that the defendants should be remanded in prison
custody, pending the determination of the case against them.
Meanwhile, briefing journalists in Abuja on Friday, Kanu, through his
lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, denied having any links with the Movement
for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND.
The IPOB leader said he never gave MEND the nod to negotiate with the
federal government for his release from detention.
“In the past few days, the media was awash with news on negotiation
going on between the Federal Government and the members of MEND, where
our client’s name (Nna-mdi Kanu) conspi-cuously featured.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/biafra-ready-negotiate-fg-kanu/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/biafra-ready-negotiate-fg-kanu/
Detained leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday, said he
was ready to negotiate with the Federal Government to regain his freedom
from Kuje Prison. Kanu who was hitherto the Director of Radio Biafra
and Television, has been in detention since October 14, 2015, when he
was arrested by security operatives upon his arrival to Nigeria from his
base in the United Kingdom.
ARRAIGNED: Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, with a Prisons official, at the premises of a Federal High
Court in Abuja, yesterday.
ARRAIGNED: Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, with a Prisons official, at the premises of a Federal High
Court in Abuja.
He is answering to a six-count treason charge alongside two other
pro-Biafra agitators, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu.
Trial Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja had on
January 20, ordered that the defendants should be remanded in prison
custody, pending the determination of the case against them.
Meanwhile, briefing journalists in Abuja on Friday, Kanu, through his
lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, denied having any links with the Movement
for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND.
The IPOB leader said he never gave MEND the nod to negotiate with the
federal government for his release from detention.
“In the past few days, the media was awash with news on negotiation
going on between the Federal Government and the members of MEND, where
our client’s name (Nna-mdi Kanu) conspi-cuously featured.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/biafra-ready-negotiate-fg-kanu/
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/biafra-ready-negotiate-fg-kanu/


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