The Federal Government of Nigeria has
slammed a fresh charge of treasonable felony on Radio Biafra Founder, Nnamdi
Kanu.
Kanu who has been in detention was last
week freed by an Abuja High Court.
The Federal Government had gone to a
Federal High Court in Abuja last Friday to prefer six charges against Kanu,
Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi.
In the charge-sheet signed by the Director,
Public Prosecution (DPP), Mohammed Saidu Diri, for the Attorney-General of the
Federation obtained by Daily Sun, Kanu and the two others were charged with
treasonable felony which is punishable under Section 41(C) of the Criminal Code
Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.
Giving details, the charge-sheet read in
part: “That you, Nnamdi Kanu and other unknown per- sons, now at large, at
London, United Kingdom, between 2014 and September, 2015 with intention to levy
war against Nigeria in order to force the President to change his measures of
being the President of the Federation, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of
the Armed Forces of the Federation as defined in Section 3 of the Constitution
of the Federal Re- public of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by doing an act to wit:
Broadcast on Radio Biafra your preparations for the states in the South- East
geo-political zone, South-South geo-political zone, the Igala Community of Kogi
State and the Idoma/Igede Community of Benue State to secede from the Federal
Republic of Nigeria and form themselves into a Republic of Biafra, and thereby
committed an offence punish- able under Section 41(C) of the Criminal Code Act,
CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.”
On count two of the charges, the federal
authorities also accused the trio of managing an unlawful society.
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