Alleged terrorism: Court admits videos of Kanu’s radio Biafra broadcasts

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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, admitted in evidence, video clips containing a series of inflammatory broadcasts that were made by the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The videos, which were contained in a flash drive, were played in the open court after the Federal Government tendered them through an operative of the Department of State Services, DSS, which was codenamed PW-BBB.

In one of the videos, Kanu, who is answering to a seven-count charge bordering on terrorism and treasonable felony, was seen announcing the creation of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, which was described as the armed wing of the IPoB.

Kanu equally declared a lockdown in the entire South-East region of the country, in furtherance of his Biafra secessionist agenda.

One of the videos the court admitted in evidence, was tagged: “Broadcast by Nnamdi Kanu.”

The IPoB leader was seen in the clip, addressing his followers on what he called “The Blessed Land of Biafra.”

While announcing the formation of the ESN, he implored his followers to rise and defend their land against what he referred to as “Fulani domination.”

He further warned political leaders in the region against compromise, even as he issued a directive that forbade the presence of Fulani herdsmen in the South-East.

Kanu, specifically declared in the video that: “No Fulani parading as herdsmen shall be allowed in our land. If you are an agent of the Fulani, turn away this evening.”

Led in evidence by Federal Government’s lead prosecutor, Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, the witness, who testified behind a protective screen, maintained that Kanu’s broadcasts precipitated various acts of terrorism in the South-East.