There was tight security at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday as the trial of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, resumed.
Members of the Department of State Services, DSS, Army and Police mounted guard at different entrances to the court.
Nnamdi Kanu is facing trial over offences bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism.
It would be recalled that Kanu jumped bail in 2017 and fled the country.
He was however re-arrested and returned to the country in June 2021 and detained by the DSS.
One of the charges against him reads: “Being the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, preparations made by you and others now at large, for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue states to secede from the federal republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into the Republic of Biafra and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 41(c) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP. C77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”
