26.9.2025
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has lost his quest to have the terrorism charges against him thrown out of court.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday dismissed the no-case submission filed by Mr. Kanu who has been in detention since June 2021 when he was arrested in Nairobi, Kenya and whisked to Nigeria.
Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling, held that the Department of State Services (DSS) has made out a prima facie case against Kanu for him to enter his defence in the alleged terrorism trial.
The judge held that the evidence presented by the prosecution through its five witnesses were such that there was the need for the IPOB leader to provide some explanations in the offences with which he was charged.
Justice Omotosho, then, adjourned the matter until Oct. 8 for the hearing of the report of the Nigerian Medical Association
Meanwhile the court ordered the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to set up a panel of medical experts to ascertain Mr. Kanu‘s actual health status.
“This court hereby ordered as follow:
“An order directing the president of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to constitute an investigating committee.”
The judge ordered the panel, which he said should be between eight to 10 members, to investigate the Department of State Services (DSS) facility and consider if it would be suitable to take care of Kanu’s health.
He said the panel should consider if Kanu, should be moved to National Hospital for urgent medical attention if the committee considered the DSS facility to be inefficient.
He directed that the panel should consider if Kanu‘s health status is fit to face the trial.
Justice Omotosho also ordered that the chief medical director of Abuja National Hospital or his representative must be a member of the panel, Kanu, having chose the hospital for his treatment. NAN
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