By Moses Okorie
365Daily – Barely 24 hours to commencement of trial for the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, the Nigerian Government on Monday filed fresh terrorism charges against him from seven to fifteen.
According to the amended process it filed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the Nigerian Government increased the counts in the initial charge it preferred against 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 Director of Public Prosecution, M.B Abubakar.
This amended charge came barely 24 hours to the scheduled commencement of hearing by Justice Binta Nyako.
The court had on December 2, 2021 fixed Tuesday to hear some pending applications including the one Kanu filed to be discharged and acquitted.