SSS charges Nnamdi Kanu for calling Buhari ‘an idiot’, says London within Nigerian court jurisdiction
The secret police unveiled its amended charge sheet as the separatist leader’s trial resumes on October 21.
The State Security Service has unveiled its amended charge sheet in the ongoing terrorism charges against Nnamdi Kanu. The Biafran agitator was abducted by Nigerian operatives in Nairobi and transferred to Nigeria in June. He has been held in custody ever since.
Ahead of his trial continuation on October 21, the SSS sent out a list of seven charges preferred against Mr Kanu at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
Amongst other charges, the secret police said Mr Kanu was being charged for describing President Muhammadu Buhari as “an idiot” and also said in counts six and seven that London is under the jurisdiction of the Nigerian court.
Count One:
That you Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu lbeku Umahia North Local Government Area of Abia State 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.
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