The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned similarly complaints in the case in opposition to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, until Wednesday.
The adjournment observed Kanu’s bitch that the Federal Government failed to rapidly serve him the clean 15-count amended charge it brought earlier than the court.
Kanu, via is group of legal professionals led through a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, similarly accused FG of denying him the quintessential facility to shield the charge in opposition to him.
Ozekhome, SAN, informed the courtroom that the amended cost was once served on them, barely 24 hours to the scheduled hearing.
“My lord, the proposed amended charge was once served on us the day prior to this evening. As I talk to you my lord, the Defendant who was simply added in, has not even viewed the cost which he is being told to enter his plea.
“With due respect, that is not Justice. It is ambushing. I know that the Administration if Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, lets in them to amend, however this is the 6th amendment they are making, and every time they do it, they serve us a day to the hearing, just to frustrate the trial”, Ozekhome added.
On his part, the Prosecution team, led with the aid of Mr. Mohammed Labaran from the Federal Ministry of Justice, said he was now not antagonistic to the court docket granting a brief adjournment to allow the defence legal professionals to find out about the charge.
Meanwhile, before adjourning the case till Wednesday, trial Justice Binta Nyako, ordered the Department of State Services, DSS, to permit Kanu to have a change of cloth.
“I don’t want to see him in this fabric again. This one is nearly off-white. Also make sure that you permit him to exercise”, Justice Nyako delivered
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