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FG Files Fresh Charges Against Nnamdi Kanu
The Federal Authorities has filed an amended seven-count cost in opposition to the chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, earlier than a Federal excessive courtroom in Abuja.
The recent prices border on treasonable felony and terrorism following the pending prices he was dealing with since 2016.
In the meantime, the courtroom has issued listening to discover within the case, which is billed to begin on Thursday, October 21.
The discover titled Federal Republic of Nigeria Versus Nnamdi Kanu with swimsuit quantity: FHC/ABJ/CR/383/15, was served on Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor and that of the prosecution, Shuaibu Labaran.
The discover signifies that the courtroom presided by Justice Binta Nyako made recent directives on the conduct of the proceedings all through the case.
“This case will probably be transferred from the Common Trigger Record to the listening to paper for Thursday twenty first October 2021at 9 o’clock forenoon and can come on to be on that day if the enterprise of the courtroom permits or in any other case on some adjustment day of which you’ll obtain no additional discover,” the discover reads.
“If both occasion wishes to postpone the listening to, he should apply to the courtroom as quickly as attainable for that function and if the appliance relies on any matter of truth, he have to be ready to offer proof of these information.
“The events are warned that on the listening to, they’re required to convey ahead all of the proof by witnesses or by paperwork which every of them wishes to depend on in assist of his personal case and in contradiction of that of his opponent.
“The proof will probably be required on the listening to and never on a subsequent day, and events failing to convey their proof ahead on the correct time could discover themselves completely precluded from adducing it in any respect, or at finest solely allowed to take action on fee of considerable prices to the opposite facet, and on such different phrases because the court deems matches to impose.
“Events wanting to implement the attendance of witnesses ought to apply without delay to the courtroom to subject a number of summonses for the attendance of the witnesses required.
“It’s indispensable that the appliance needs to be made in order to permit time for affordable discover to the witnesses required.
“If the witness is required to convey books or papers, they have to be particularized within the summons sufficiently to allow him to know what is supposed.
” Any occasion summoning a witness by means of the courtroom thereby turns into liable to pay such witness affordable sum of cash to be fastened by the courtroom for his expense and lack of time.
“The courtroom could refuse to implement the attendance of a witness until such sum has been fastened and deposited within the courtroom.
“If both occasion wishes to make use of in proof on the listening to, any e book or doc within the possession or energy of the opposite occasion, he should give the opposite occasion, affordable discover in writing to supply It on the listening to, failing which he won’t be allowed to offer any secondary proof of its contents.”
