The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has found the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, guilty of terrorism.
The verdict was given on Thursday by Justice James Omotosho while delivering judgment in the case of terrorism against Kanu.
Justice Omotosho declared that the judgment followed the incontrovertible evidence in count one that Kanu made a series of broadcasts to incite violence and killings in the country.
Kanu has been found guilty of all seven counts charged against him. Charge is on terrorism, the second is enforcement of an illegal stay-at-home order, while count three is being a member of a proscribed organisation.
He is also guilty of the fourth and five counts bordering on inciting people to take up arms against security personnel and their families.
It would be recalled that earlier, Justice Omotosho, ordered Kanu to be removed from the courtroom.
The order followed Kanu’s repeated insistence that the judgment would not be delivered in the terrorism case against him by the federal government.
Kanu argued that the court could not go ahead with the delivery of the judgment, which was to be scheduled for Thursday.
His reason was that he had yet to file his final written address.
The IPOB leader accused the judge of being biased.
He also alleged that the judge did not know the law.
Following the order of the judge, Kanu was taken away from the courtroom.
The judge continued the delivery of the final judgement in his absence and broadcast live.
