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The Abuja Federal High Court on Thursday declared that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, is an international terrorist and anarchy minded person.
Justice James Omotosho in the ongoing judgment held that Kanu extended his terrorism acts to the United States of America when he ordered that the American Embassy be brought down in a broadcast.
The judge predicated his decision on another broadcast where the convict ordered that the destruction of the British High Commission and killing of their officials.
He held that Kanu is an international terrorist by his conduct, utterances and actions as manifested in the unlawful orders he issued for the destruction of the properties of the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
According to the judge, Kanu is an anarchy minded person who did all he did wilfully.
The judgement was delivered in Kanu’s absence after the IPOB leader insisted that the judgement would not be delivered in the terrorism charge the Federal Government entered against him.
Due to the drama that ensued, the presiding judge ordered security agents to bundle him out of the court room for ‘unruly behaviour.’
Omotosho stated that several broadcasts by Kanu, through Radio Biafra, constituted acts of terrorism, adding that his rhetoric and intention were anchored on violence.
The judge also asserted that Kanu’s sit-at-home order in South-Eastern states amounted to terrorism, stressing that the order violated South-easterners’ freedom of movement.
Justice Omotosho maintained that the IPOB leader lacked the constitutional power to order people to sit at home.
According to Justice Omotosho, from the evidence before the court, Kanu carried out preparatory terrorism via his broadcasts through which he ordered the killing of police and military officers.
The court said the IPOB leader is found guilty of committing acts of terrorism against the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
