Nnamdi Kanu's Trial: SSS, police bar journalists, lawyers from courtrooms

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An SSS convoy suspected to have the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, on board, drove into the court premises in a commando-style at about 8.22 a.m. on Thursday.

Journalists and lawyers are having a hell of a time gaining entry into the Federal High Court in Abuja where the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribedMr Kanu is being tried on charges of treasonable felony regarding his separatist activities. The trial is scheduled to resume before Binta Nyako, the trial judge, on Thursday.

Businesses, especially hotels around the court’s precincts are locked up as workers are being turned away by security agents.Some of the lawyers were frisked before they were granted access into the court premises, while a majority of them, whose cases were scheduled for Thursday, before other judges of the court, were turned away.“My case is to come up before Justice Ahmed Mohammed, but I have been refused access,” a distraught lawyer, who did not want his name mentioned, told this reporter.

Mr Ejiofor had said members of the international community would witness Thursday’s proceedings in Abuja. “The show of shame openly demonstrated by the overzealous security agents on July 26, 2021, should never repeat itself,” Mr Ejiofor had said on Wednesday., was not brought to court, a development that was blamed on “logistical issues” by the prosecuting lawyer, Mohammed Abubakar.The Ohaneze Ndigbo has said there will not be fair trial of Mr Kanu.

 

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