HOTPEN – The Federal Government has entered fresh terrorism allegations against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
In the amended process it filed , on Monday, before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the federal government increased the counts in the initial charge it preferred against Nnamdi Kanu.
The IPOB leader who was hitherto facing a seven-count treasonable felony charge, will now enter his fresh plea to a 15-count amended charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, and signed by the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, M. B. Abubakar.
The government amended the charge, barely 24 hours to the scheduled commencement of hearing by trial Justice Binta Nyako, scheduled for Tuesday.
The court had on December 2, fixed Tuesday to hear some pending applications, including the one Kanu filed to be discharged and acquitted.