Judge Orders Nnamdi Kanu Escorted Out of Courtroom

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered security agents to bundle the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, out of the courtroom.

He gave the order after Kanu insisted that judgment would not be delivered on the terrorism charge the Federal Government entered against him.

After Kanu’s repeated shouts that the trial judge must show him where it was written in the law that he was not entitled to file a written address in the case against him, the court temporarily halted its proceedings to enable security operatives to take him out of the room.

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The judge, however, stood down the matter after he delivered a ruling that dismissed fresh motions the IPOB leader filed after the case was slated for judgement.

According to the court, the motions contained issues that were previously raised by the defendant.

It dismissed Kanu’s request for the case to be referred to the Court of Appeal, stressing that section 306 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, forbade the stay of proceedings in a criminal matter.

The court equally refused the defendant’s request for bail, saying it would, in the course of the judgement, consider some of the issues Kanu raised in his motions.

As the judge attempted to commence the reading of the judgement, Kanu stood his ground, shouting that the court had no jurisdiction to decide the case without admitting his written address.