Biafra separatist, Nnamdi Kanu, has arrived the courtroom at the Federal High Court, Abuja, as his trial on terrorism charges resumed on Wednesday afternoon, POLITICS NIGERIA reports.
He was brought into the court at around 1:25PM.
Lead counsel Mike Ozekhome challenged why his client, Kanu, would not be allowed new clothes, considering the Department of State Services (DSS) were instructed by the court to allow him put on new wears. Since last year, he he has been coming to court in the Fendi wear in which he was seized abroad.
Kanu heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group he founded in 2014 that is pressing for the secession of the Igbo ethnic group’s homeland, which covers part of southeast Nigeria. The Nigerian authorities view IPOB as a terrorist group.
Kanu previously pleaded not guilty to seven charges including terrorism, calling for secession and knowingly broadcasting falsehoods about President Muhammadu Buhari.
Nigerian authorities last year accused IPOB of attacks on police stations and government offices in the southeast. The group denies this and has called the accusations an attempt to force it to disband.
An attempt by the Igbo homeland to secede as the Republic of Biafra in 1967 – the year that Kanu was born – triggered a three-year civil war that killed more than 1 million people.
