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Nnamdi Kanu at the court premises

Kanu denies apologizing to Buhari, others

Nnamdi Kanu at the court premises
Nnamdi Kanu at the court premises
Counsel to detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Ra­dio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Vincent Obetta has refuted reports that his client tendered an apology to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Obetta, Wednesday, claimed instead that the purported apology was proof that government was trying to use all instruments at its disposal to ‘puncture’ the Biafra campaigner’s defence. “It is not true,” he reiterated.
“Government is using every instrument to punc­ture what we are doing,” he maintained.
Department of State Ser­vices (DSS) arraigned Kanu in court in October. Shuaibu Usman, presiding over the Chief Magistrate Court, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, had earlier discharged him on all counts of criminal con­spiracy and ownership of an unlawful society brought against him by the Federal Government.
The Federal Government then filed a fresh five-count charge of treasonable felony against Kanu, after Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, ordered the DSS to release him ‘unconditionally’.
In his ruling, Ademola held that the continued de­tention of Kanu by the DSS was unlawful, since the ac­cused was yet to be charged on suspicion of terrorism. Speaking before the Federal High Court the following day, Kanu said he had lost confidence in the court’s abilities to give an order and have the authorities follow it, asking the court to leave him in detention.
“I will rather remain in detention than subject myself to a trial that I know amounts to perversion of justice,” he had said.

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