Reports have revealed that the Federal Government is raising a crack team of lawyers to prosecute the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who was intercepted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Friday and was arrested and repatriated to Nigeria on Sunday.
Kanu had vanished from Nigeria after Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, where he was standing trial for a six-count charge, granted him bail in April 2017.
His bail was subsequently revoked in September 2019 following his persistent absence from court.
It was learnt security and intelligence agencies went on his trail, following his breach of the bail conditions, and eventually tracked him down to Addis Ababa on Thursday, where his arrest was made on Friday by Interpol. He was handed over to the operatives of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), who arranged his repatriation to Nigeria on Sunday.
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Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, announced to an unsuspecting on Tuesday, the re-arrest of Kanu and his re-arraignment in court on an 11-count charge, including a treasonable felony.
It was, however, gathered that the justice ministry spent most of Tuesday night mobilising seasoned criminal lawyers in its prosecution department to draft fresh charges that might swell the list of accusations against Kanu to include mass murder.
Sources, according to reports, revealed that security and intelligence agents have credible evidence linking the IPOB leader to the murder of hundreds of people, including those killed during the multiple attacks on police, custodian centre and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) facilities in the South-east and parts of the South-south.
A security source said:
We have credible evidence of his instructions to IPOB hierarchy to kill security officials and other persons that are seen to be against the group’s agitations.
We have direct links between his several inciting video and audio messages and the violence in the South-east that has led to the killing of more than 100 persons.